"Give me a morsel, friend. You’re hardly the worst
Achaean here, it seems. The noblest one, in fact.
You look like a king to me!
So you should give a bigger crust than the rest
and I will sing your praises all across the earth.
I too once lived in a lofty house that men admired;
rolling in wealth, I’d often give to a vagabond like myself,
whoever he was, whatever need had brought him to my door."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 17, lines 458-465. Keeping up his old beggar pretence, Odysseus begs for food from the suitor Antinous. He is being ironic in his flattery of Antinous. Appearing to compliment Antinous by telling him that he looks like a king and should give a bigger crust than the others, Odysseus is being sarcastic.