"And so it will be" –
Alcinous stepped in grandly – "sure as I am alive
and rule our island men who love their oars!
Our guest, much as he longs for passage home,
must stay and wait it out here till tomorrow,
till I can collect his whole array of parting gifts.
His send-off rests with every noble here
but with me most of all:
I hold the reins of power in the realm."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 11, lines 394-402. Alcinous commands that Odysseus rest in Phaeacia one more day before leaving for Ithaca. The hospitable king promises him many fine parting gifts.