"Oh I can see it now –
the disaster closing on you all! There’s no escaping it,
no way out – not for a single one of you suitors,
wild reckless fools, plotting outrage here,
the halls of Odysseus, great and strong as a god!"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 20, lines 410-414. As the suitors mock and laugh at Theoclymenus’ warning, the seer speaks up about the disastrous and inescapable future fated for them. His prophecy foreshadows the suitors’ deaths. In a simile he compares Odysseus’ strength to that of a god.