"It’s all we slaves have got,
scrawny pork, while the suitors eat the fatted hogs –
no fear of the gods in their hard hearts, no mercy!
Trust me, the blessed gods have no love for crime.
They honor justice, honor the decent acts of men.
Even cutthroat bandits who raid foreign parts –
and Zeus grants them a healthy share of plunder,
ships filled to the brim, and back they head for home –
even their dark hearts are stalked by the dread of vengeance."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 14, lines 93-101. Eumaeus criticizes the suitors for eating the fatted hogs, leaving the servants only the scrawniest meat. But he tells Odysseus-the-beggar that divine retribution is coming, because the gods honor good and the suitors have behaved badly.