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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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Ill fares the State where many masters rule; let one be lord, one king supreme.
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Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.
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Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.
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At length as the Morning Star was beginning to herald the light which saffron-mantled Dawn was soon to suffuse over the sea, the flames fell and the fire began to die.
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It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize, And to be swift is less than to be wise.
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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
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Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.
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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
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We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
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But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
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And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words.
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The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.
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Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
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Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery.
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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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