"There was a tale, my lady. So well told.
…Three times you sauntered round our hollow ambush,
feeling, stroking its flanks,
challenging all our fighters, calling each by name –
yours was the voice of all our long-lost wives!
And Diomedes and I, crouched tight in the midst
with great Odysseus, hearing you singing out,
were both keen to spring up and sally forth
or give you a sudden answer from inside,
but Odysseus damped our ardor, reined us back."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 298, 310-315. Menelaus is speaking to Telemachus about the wooden horse and his wife Helen during the Trojan War. Helen called to the Achaian fighters hidden inside the horse in the voices of their wives.