The Odyssey 22.23–26
but nowhere was there a shield or mighty spear to seize. But they railed at Odysseus with angry words:
“Stranger, to thy cost dost thou shoot at men; never again shalt thou take part in other contests; now is thy utter destruction sure. Aye, for thou hast now slain a man who was far the best
ἐκ δὲ θρόνων ἀνόρουσαν ὀρινθέντες κατὰ δῶμα,
πάντοσε παπταίνοντες ἐϋδμήτους ποτὶ τοίχους·
οὐδέ πη ἀσπὶς ἔην οὐδʼ ἄλκιμον ἔγχος ἑλέσθαι.
νείκειον δʼ Ὀδυσῆα χολωτοῖσιν ἐπέεσσι·