"I pray, Eumaeus, you’ll be as dear to Father Zeus
as you are to me – a man in my condition –
you honor me by giving me your best."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 14, lines 499-501. After Eumaeus cooks a boar and provides Odysseus with the choicest cuts of meat, Odysseus blesses the hospitable swineherd for paying him such an honor.