"Father Zeus," the trusty cowherd shouted,
"bring my prayer to pass! Let the master come –
some god guide him now! You’d see my power,
my fighting arms in action!"
Eumaeus echoed his prayer to all the gods
that their wise king would soon come home again.
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 21, lines 226-232. Philoetius and Eumaeus show their loyalty to Odysseus, by praying to Zeus for divine intervention to help bring their king back to his homeland of Ithaca.