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Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway of honest horn, and one of ivory. Issuing by the ivory gate are dreams of glimmering illusion, fantasies, but those that come through solid polished horn may be borne out, if mortals only know them.
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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.
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Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies And sure he will for Wisdom never lies.
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So they spoke, and both springing down from behind their horses
gripped each other's hands and exchanged the promise of friendship;
but Zeus the son of Kronos stole away the wits of Glaukos
who exchanged with Diomedes the son of Tydeus armour
of gold for bronze, for nine oxen's worth the worth of a hundred.
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The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
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There she met sleep, the brother of death.
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Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans.
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There is nothing more shameless than the accursed belly; it thrusts itself upon a man's mind in spite of his afflictions.
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I could not tell nor name the multitude, not even if I had ten tongues, ten mouths, not if I had a voice unwearying and a heart of bronze were in me.
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May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better than this—when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
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Attach a golden chain from heaven, and all of you take hold of it, you gods and goddesses, yet would you not be able to drag Zeus the most high from heaven to earth.
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The force of keen reproaches let him feel,
but sheath, obedient, thy revenging steel.
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Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.
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The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
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The Olympian is a difficult foe to oppose.
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Remembering this, he wept bitterly, lying now on his side, now on his back, now on his face.
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But night is already at hand; it is well to yield to the night.
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I wish that strife would vanish away from among gods and mortals, and gall, which makes a man grow angry for all his great mind, that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey.
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
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Endure, my heart: you once endured something even more dreadful.
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They strove to pile Ossa on Olympus, and on Ossa Pelion with its leafy forests, that they might scale the heavens.
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They tug, they sweat, but neither gain, nor yield
One foot, one inch of the contended field.
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By the ships there lies a dead man, unwept, unburied: Patroclus.
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Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
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Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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