The Odyssey, Homer, Book 1:
So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.
Dante, Inferno, Canto 1:
When I had journeyed half of our life’s way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was,
that savage forest, dense and difficult,
which even in recall renews my fear:
(29) In this very wilderness shall your carcasses drop. Of all of you [men]*[men] The whole adult population will die in the wilderness; however, only the men had been counted in the census (see 1.2–3). who were recorded in your various lists from the age of twenty years up, you who have muttered against Me, (30) not one shall enter the land in which I swore to settle you—save Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
each person must see himself
as if he himself had come out of Egypt,
as it is said:
“And you shall tell your child on that day,
‘Because of this the LORD acted for me
when I came out of Egypt.’”
It was not only our ancestors
whom the Holy One redeemed;
He redeemed us too along with them,
as it is said:
“He took us out of there,
to bring us to the land
He promised our ancestors and to give it to us.”