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The Odyssey 22.356–360
or he met thee as thou didst rage through the house.”
So he spoke, and Medon, wise of heart, heard him, for he lay crouching beneath a chair, and had clothed himself in the skin of an ox, newly flayed, seeking to avoid black fate. Straightway he rose from beneath the chair and stripped off the ox-hide,
ἴσχεο μηδέ τι τοῦτον ἀναίτιον οὔταε χαλκῷ·
καὶ κήρυκα Μέδοντα σαώσομεν, ὅς τέ μευ αἰεὶ
οἴκῳ ἐν ἡμετέρῳ κηδέσκετο παιδὸς ἐόντος,
εἰ δὴ μή μιν ἔπεφνε Φιλοίτιος ἠὲ συβώτης,
ἠὲ σοὶ ἀντεβόλησεν ὀρινομένῳ κατὰ δῶμα.