"Wonderful!" the red-haired king cried out.
"The son of my dearest friend, here in my own house!
That man who performed a hundred feats of arms for me.
And I swore that when he came I’d give him a hero’s welcome,
him above all my comrades – if only Olympian Zeus,
farseeing Zeus, had granted us both safe passage
home across the sea in our swift trim ships.
Why, I’d have settled a city in Argos for him."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 185-192. Menelaus is excited to have Telemachus, son of his great friend Odysseus, in his house. But Menelaus wishes that both himself and Odysseus had been given safe passage home by Zeus.