"Rejoice in your heart,
old woman – peace! No cries of triumph now.
It’s unholy to glory over the bodies of the dead
These men the doom of the gods has brought low,
and their own indecent acts. They’d no regard
for any man on earth – good or bad –
who chanced to come their way. And so, thanks
to their reckless work, they met this shameful fate."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 22, lines 435-442. When Eurycleia finds Odysseus in the midst of the suitors’ bodies in the hall, she is about to let out a triumphant cry. Stopping her, Odysseus says to rejoice quietly in her heart. While he feels it unholy to cheer over the bodies of the dead, he believes that the suitors’ deaths was divine justice. Having led reckless and indecent lives, they were fated to meet a shameful end.