"You’re sick with pride, you brutal fool.
No doubt you count yourself a great, powerful man
because you sport with a puny crowd, ill-bred to boot.
If only Odysseus came back home and stood right here,
in a flash you’d find those doors – broad as they are –
too cramped for your race to safety through the porch!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 18, lines 431-436. When Eurymachus makes fun of and insults Odysseus, asking if he wants to work for him, the disguised king accuses Eurymachus of being sick with pride. Odysseus-the-beggar sounds an ominous warning that there will be no safe escape for the suitors when Odysseus returns. Foreshadowed here is Odysseus’ deadly and final battle with the suitors.