Iliad

we should soon bear off Patroklos into Ilion . Could we get this dead man away and bring him into the city of Priam, the Argives would readily give up the armor of Sarpedon, and we should get his body to boot. For he whose squire [ therapôn ] has been now killed is the foremost man at the ships of the Achaeans - he and his close-fighting followers [ therapontes ]. Nevertheless you dared not make a stand against Ajax, nor face him, eye to eye, with battle all round you, for he is a braver man than you are."

IliadBook 17, Line 157Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 17

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