"Get off the porch, you old goat, before I haul you
off by the leg! Can’t you see them give me the wink,
all of them here, to drag you out – and so I would
but I’ve got some pangs of conscience. Up with you, man,
or before you know it, we’ll be trading blows."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 18, lines 12-16. The "Beggar King of Ithaca" Irus gets territorial and objects to another beggar encroaching on his turf – the disguised Odysseus. Claiming exclusive begging rights with palace suitors, Irus insults and threatens Odysseus.