"And now those gallant suitors lie in wait for him,
sailing home, to tear the royal line of Arcesius
out of Ithaca, root and branch, good name and all!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 14, lines 208-210. Eumaeus reveals to Odysseus the suitors’ plot to kill Telemachus on his way back from Pylos and take over the palace. So Odysseus is faced with the need to defeat the suitors in order to save his family.