"So by day I’d weave at my great and growing web –
by night, by the light of torches set beside me,
I would unravel all I’d done. Three whole years
I deceived them blind, seduced them with this scheme."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 19, lines 167-170. A cunning Penelope deceives the army of suitors for three years with her weaving ruse. She boasts to Odysseus-the-beggar how she weaved a buriel shroud for Laertes by day and unraveled it by night, so that she would never finish it and have to marry a suitor. She says mischievously and with irony that she "seduced" the suitors with her scheme, so that she could stay faithful to her husband.