The Odyssey 14.414–417
who comes from afar, and we too shall have some profit therefrom, who have long borne toil and suffering for the sake of the white-tusked swine, while others devour our labour without atonement.”
So saying, he split wood with the pitiless bronze, and the others brought in a fatted boar of five years old,
ἄξεθʼ ὑῶν τὸν ἄριστον, ἵνα ξείνῳ ἱερεύσω
τηλεδαπῷ· πρὸς δʼ αὐτοὶ ὀνησόμεθʼ, οἵ περ ὀϊζὺν
δὴν ἔχομεν πάσχοντες ὑῶν ἕνεκʼ ἀργιοδόντων·
ἄλλοι δʼ ἡμέτερον κάματον νήποινον ἔδουσιν.