Possible Clues:

• Pay back in kind
• Greek character, I subsequently get upset and fight back
• Later back there I had a meal to get my own back
• Get even
• Make tit-for-tat attack
• I subsequently returned, fed up, to settle the score
• Hit back with a literate composition
• Greek character and I subsequently return to take revenge
• Criticise imported alien a lot initially; I eventually hit back
• Exact retribution