"So you,
dear boy, take care. Don’t rove from home too long,
too far, leaving your own holdings unprotected –
crowds in your palace so brazen
they’ll carve up all your wealth, devour it all,
and then your journey here will come to nothing."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 3, lines 352-357. Nestor advises Telemachus, who has left Ithaca in search of his father, not to stay away from home too long, leaving his property unprotected. He is urging Telemachus to get back to Ithaca before all his family wealth is devoured by the suitors.