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A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
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Their ships are swift as a bird or a thought.
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Prayers are the daughters of mighty Zeus, lame and wrinkled and slanting-eyed.
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As the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyelids for me as I lay dying into Hades.
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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods.
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By mutual confidence and mutual aid - great deeds are done, and great discoveries made
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Here, therefore, huge and mighty warrior though you be, here shall you die.
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I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
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Great Priam entered in, and coming close to Achilles, clasped in his hands his knees, and kissed his hands, the terrible, man-slaying hands that had slain his many sons.
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Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings—their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.
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And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind,
The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
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Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
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It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
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Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
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I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
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The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
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Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
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Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
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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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Iliad
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