"Now your suitors are plotting something worse,
harsher, crueler. God forbid they bring it off!
They’re poised to cut Telemachus down with bronze swords
on his way back home."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 786-789. The loyal court herald Medon overhears the suitors’ plan to murder Telemachus on his way home from Pylos and Sparta. He immediately informs Penelope.