"Up with you now, my good old Eurycleia,
come and wash your master’s…equal in years.
Odysseus must have feet and hands like his by now –
hardship can age a person overnight."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 19, lines 406-409. As Penelope calls on Eurycleia to wash Odysseus-the-beggar’s feet, she appears to have a suspicion that her guest might indeed be her husband. At first she seems to ask the nurse to wash her master’s feet, then suddenly changes what she is saying to the guest being equal in years to the master.