Verse
Iliad
Book 2, Line 290 by Samuel Butler (English)
they murmur and would set off homeward. True it is that they have had toil [ponos] enough to be disheartened. A man chafes at having to stay away from his wife even for a single month, when he is on shipboard, at the mercy of wind and sea,
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