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Iliad
Book 16, Line 439 by Samuel Butler (English)
And Hera answered, "Most dread son of Kronos, what is this that you are saying? Would you snatch a mortal man, whose doom has long been fated, out of the jaws of death? Do as you will, but we shall not all of us be of your mind. I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, that if you send Sarpedon safely to his own home, some other of the gods will be also wanting to escort his son out of battle, for there are many sons of gods fighting round the city of Troy , and you will make every one jealous. If, however, you are fond of him and pity him, let him indeed fall by the hand of Patroklos, but as soon as the life [ psukhê ] is gone out of him, send Death and sweet Sleep to bear him off the field and take him to the broad district [ dêmos ] of Lycia , where his brothers and his kinsmen will bury him with mound and pillar, in due honor to the dead."
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