If you keep your mind on homecoming, and leave these unharmed,
you might all make your way back to Ithaca, after much suffering;
but if you do harm them, then I testify to the destruction
of your ship and your companions, but if you get yourself clear,
you will come home in bad case, with the loss of all your companions,
in someone else’s ship, and find troubles in your household,
insolent men…
(11: 110-116)