"No, at their royal ease they devour all his goods,
those brazen rascals never spare a scrap!
Not a day or a night goes by, sent down by Zeus,
but they butcher victims, never stopping at one or two,
and drain his wine as if there’s no tomorrow –
swilling the last drop."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 14, lines 105-110. Eumaeus tells Odysseus of the greed of the suitors. They are literally eating the king’s family out of house and home, butchering the animals wholesale and drinking all the wine.