Verse
Iliad
Book 16, Line 627 by Samuel Butler (English)
On this the son of Menoitios rebuked him and said, "Meriones, hero though you be, you should not speak thus; taunting speeches, my good friend, will not make the Trojans draw away from the dead body; some of them must go under ground first; the outcome [ telos ] of battle is in the force of hands, while the outcome of deliberation is words; fight, therefore, and say nothing."
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