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Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
Homer -
How vain, without the merit, is the name.
Homer
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Will cast the spear and leave the rest to Jove.
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And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
Homer -
Why have you come to me here, dear heart, with all these instructions? I promise you I will do everything just as you ask. But come closer. Let us give in to grief, however briefly, in each other's arms.
Homer -
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Homer -
Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
Homer -
Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
Homer
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If you are one of earth’s inhabitants, how blest your father, and your gentle mother, blest all your kin. I know what happiness must send the warm tears to their eyes, each time they see their wondrous child go to the dancing! But one man’s destiny is more than blest—he who prevails, and takes you as his bride. Never have I laid eyes on equal beauty in man or woman. I am hushed indeed.
Homer -
For love deceives the best of woman kind.
Homer -
Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer -
Being eaten by a crocodile is just like going to sleep...in a giant blender.
Homer -
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
Homer -
The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king.
Homer
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
Homer -
I can't even say the word 'titmouse' without giggling like a schoolgirl.
Homer -
Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Homer -
Youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.
Homer -
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
Homer -
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!
Homer
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Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.
Homer -
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the grip of death./ But glaring under his brows Odysseus answered: 'You yellow dogs, you thought I'd never make it/ home from the land of Troy. You took my house to plunder,/ twisted my maids to serve your beds. You dared/ bid for my wife while I was still alive./ Contempt was all you had for the gods who rule wide heaven,/ contempt for what men say of you hereafter./ Your last hour has come. You die in blood.
Homer -
There is nothing worse for mortals than a wandering life.
Homer -
So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
Homer