The Odyssey.
BOOK 1: ATHENA INSPIRES THE PRINCE
Lines 184-192
"Look at them over there. Not a care in the world,
just lyres and tunes! It's easy for them, all right,
they feed on another's goods and go scot-free -
a man whose white bones lie strewn in the rain somewhere,
rotting away on land or rolling down the ocean's salty swells.
But that man - if they caught sight of him home in Ithaca,
by god, they'd all pray to be faster on their feet
than richer in bars of gold and heavy robes."
Said by Prince Temelachus to Athena (in the form of or posing as "Mentes")
about the suitors who are trying to forge their way into the family whilst Odysseus is gone.
They laugh and play now, but they wouldn't stand a chance against Odysseus.
Maybe this is foreshadowing, that maybe they'll get what's coming to them.
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