Verse
Iliad
Book 21, Line 558 by Samuel Butler (English)
till I reach the spurs of Ida and can hide in the underwood that is thereon? I could then wash the sweat from off me in the river and in the evening return to Ilion . But why commune with myself in this way? Like enough he would see me as I am hurrying from the city over the plain, and would speed after me till he had caught me - I should stand no chance against him, for he is mightiest of all humankind. What, then, if I go out and meet him in front of the city? His flesh too, I take it, can be pierced by pointed bronze. Life [ psukhê ] is the same in one and all, and men say that he is but mortal despite the triumph that Zeus son of Kronos grants him."
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