"No, Eurymachus! Not if you paid me all your father’s wealth –
all you possess now, and all that could pour in from the world’s end –
no, not even then would I stay my hands from slaughter
till all you suitors had paid for all your crimes!
Now life or death – your choice – fight me or flee
if you hope to escape your sudden bloody doom!
I doubt one man in the lot will save his skin!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 22, lines 65-71. Odysseus flatly refuses Eurymachus’ offer of compensation in exchange for the lives of the suitors. He vows that every last one of them will pay with their lives for their crimes.