Iliad

And Nestor answered, "Why should Achilles care to know how many of the Achaeans may be wounded? He recks not of the grief [ penthos ] that reigns in our host; our most valiant chieftains lie disabled, brave Diomedes son of Tydeus is wounded; so are Odysseus and Agamemnon; Eurypylos has been hit with an arrow in the thigh, and I have just been bringing this man from the field - he too wounded - with an arrow; nevertheless Achilles, so valiant though he be, cares not and knows no ruth. Will he wait till the ships, do what we may, are in a blaze, and we perish one upon the other?

IliadBook 11, Line 655Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 11

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