"But I do advise you to sound the women out:
who are disloyal to you, who are guiltless?
The men – I say no to testing them farm by farm.
That’s work for later, if you have really seen
a sign from Zeus whose shield is storm and thunder."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 16, lines 351-355. In dealing with the suitors, Telemachus suggests to his father to test the loyalty or disloyalty of the women only, and not the men as it would take too long. Telemachus later hangs the twelve women servants who sleep with the suitors, after they are forced to clear the suitors’ corpses from the palace hall and wash the blood from the furniture.