In the Odyssey, Leodes, Leiodes or Liodes (/liˈoʊdiːz/; Ancient Greek: Λειώδης, romanized: Leiṓdēs, lit.
Respect me, have mercy; for I claim that never in your halls did I say or do anything wrong to any one of the women, but always was trying to stop any one of the other suitors who acted in that way.
So by their own recklessness they have found a shameful death, but I was their diviner, and I did nothing; but I must fall, since there is no gratitude for past favors.'
Then looking darkly at him spoke resourceful Odysseus: 'If you claim to be the diviner among these people, many a time you must have prayed in my palace, asking that the completion of my sweet homecoming be far off from me, that my dear wife would go off with you, and bear you children.
So he spoke, and in his heavy hand caught up a sword that was lying there on the ground where Agelaos had dropped it when he was killed.