"Strangers have just arrived, your majesty, Menelaus.
Two men, but they look like kin of mighty Zeus himself.
Tell me, should we unhitch their team for them
or send them to someone free to host them well?"
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 4, lines 31-34. Eteoneus, aide-in-arms of Menelaus, announces the arrival of Telemachus and "Nestor’s shining son" Pisistratus to the king’s palace at Lacedaemon. In a simile, the visitors are said to look like relatives of father of the gods Zeus himself. Eteoneus doesn’t show the usual Greek generosity to those who have traveled far from home, suggesting that they be sent off to someone else.