"Just like you, I too have left my land –
I because I killed a man of my own tribe.
But he has many brothers and kin in Argos,
stallion-land, who rule the plains in force.
Fleeing death at their hands, a dismal fate,
I am a fugitive now,
doomed to wander across this mortal world."
…"So desperate!" thoughtful Telemachus exclaimed.
"How could I drive you from my ship? Come sail with us,
we’ll tend you at home, with all we can provide."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 15, lines 303-309. Telemachus offers hospitality to a complete stranger, when he invites the fugitive seer Theoclymenus on board his ship. The exiled Theoclymenus has fled his homeland because he killed a man there.