I tell you this, so help me it’s the truth:
if I catch you again blithering on this way,
let Odysseus’ head be wrenched off his shoulders
never again call me the father of Telemachus
if I don’t grab you, strip the clothing off you,
cloak, tunic and rags that wrap you private parts
and whip you howling naked back to the fast ships
out of the armies’ muster – whip you like a cur!
– Homer
The Iliad, Book 2, lines 302-308. Odysseus launches a verbal attack on Thersites before physically attacking him. Thersites, described as "the ugliest man who ever came to Troy" with a head full of obscenities, has angered Odysseus by telling the collected Greek armies that they should desert Agamemnon.