Strike first, I say, and kill him! - clear of town, in the fields or on the road. Then we'll seize his estates and worldly goods

"Strike first, I say, and kill him! –
clear of town, in the fields or on the road.
Then we’ll seize his estates and worldly goods,
carve them up between us, share and share alike.
But as for his palace, let his mother keep it,
she and the man she weds."

– Homer

The Odyssey, Book 16, lines 423-428. Antinous is unhappy that Telemachus is still alive and has escaped an assassination plot. He riles up the conspiring suitors to act swiftly and kill Odysseus’ son in secret. They should then take for themselves the family estates and all that they own, he says. This is yet another example of the suitors’ unbridled greed.

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