"Help yourselves to food, and welcome! Once you've dined, we'll ask you who you are."
Spoken by King Menelaus to Pisistratus and Telemachus in The Odyssey (Fagles translation, p126, lines 68-69).
When was the last time you had occasion to say, "Eat first, then we'll find out who you are"?
~ emrys
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