"My friends, what a mortal blow this man has dealt
to all our island people! Those fighters, many and brave,
he led away in his curved ships – he lost the ships
and he lost the men and back he comes again
to kill the best of our Cephallenian princes.
Quick, after him!
…Or we’ll hang our heads forever,
all disgraced, even by generations down the years,
if we don’t punish the murderers of our brothers and our sons!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 24, lines 471-476, 478-480. Eupithes wants revenge for the killing of his son Antinous by Odysseus. He whips up the supporters of the slaughtered suitors to go after Odysseus. If they don’t punish the murderers of their brothers and sons, they will be held in disgrace and dishonor for generations to come, he warns.