Telemachus rebukes Ctesippus

41“Ctesippus, well have you escaped with life,
Not having hit the stranger, who himself
Shrank from the blow; else had I pinned you through
With my sharp spear. Instead of wedding feast,
Your father would have celebrated here
Your funeral rites. Let no man in these halls
Bear himself insolently in my sight
Hereafter, for my reason now is ripe
To know the right from wrong. I was of late
A child, and now it is enough to bear
That you should slay our sheep, and drink our wine,
And eat our bread —for what can one man do
Against so many? Cease this petty war
Of wrong and hatred; but if you desire
To take my life, it is well; it were better so.
And rather would I die by violence
Than live to see these most unmanly deeds —
Guests driven away, and women-servants hauled
Through these fair rooms by brutal wassailers.”