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And some day let them say of him:
'He is better by far than his father.'
Iliad (-750)
She who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter
grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.
Iliad (-750)
Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him:
"What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?"
Iliad (-750)
On valour's side the odds of combat lie,
The brave live glorious, or lamented die;
The wretch who trembles in the field of fame,
Meets death, and worse than death, eternal shame.
Iliad (-750)
If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
Iliad (-750)
No shame in running,
fleeing disaster, even in pitch darkness.
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
Iliad (-750)
Lordship for many is no good thing. Let there be one ruler,
one king.
Iliad (-750)
I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before—
I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.
Iliad (-750)
Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!
Iliad (-750)
In form of Stentor of the brazen voice,
Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men.
Iliad (-750)
The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there
of every kind, the range of words is wide, and their variance.
Iliad (-750)
And uncontrollable laughter broke from the happy gods
as they watched the god of fire breathing hard
and bustling through the halls.
Iliad (-750)
But if you're a man who eats the crops of the earth,
a mortal born for death—here, come closer,
the sooner you will meet your day to die!
Iliad (-750)
If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men
and anger that drives the sanest man to flare in outrage—
bitter gall, sweeter than dripping streams of honey,
that swarms in people's chests and blinds like smoke.
Iliad (-750)
For a man will not have strength to fight his way forward all day
long until the sun goes down if he is starved for food.
Iliad (-750)
But a man's life breath cannot come back again—
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.
Iliad (-750)
Sleep, universal king of gods and men.
Iliad (-750)
To some the powers of bloody war belong,
To some, sweet music, and the charm of song;
To few, and wondrous few, has Jove assigned
A wise, extensive, all-considering mind.
Iliad (-750)
Both gods knotted the rope of strife and leveling war,
strangling both sides at once by stretching the mighty cable,
never broken, never slipped, that snapped the knees of thousands.
Iliad (-750)
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
Iliad (-750)