"And you, if you have any shame in your own hearts,
you must leave my palace! See to your feasting elsewhere,
devour your own possessions, house to house by turns.
But if you decide the fare is better, richer here,
destroying one man’s goods and going scot-free,
all right then, carve away!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 2, lines 155-160. Telemachus is fed up with the greedy suitors devouring all of Odysseus’ possessions. He stands up to them and asks them to leave. We see here his growing maturity and courage as he develops into a man. The prince is growing into manhood, but without his father, he knows that he doesn’t have the power to make the the suitors leave.