Iliad

And Hektor answered, "Bid me not be seated, Helen, for all the goodwill you bear me. I cannot stay. I am in haste to help the Trojans, who miss me greatly when I am not among them; but urge your husband, and of his own self also let him make haste to overtake me before I am out of the city. I must go home to see my household, my wife and my little son, for I know not whether I shall ever again return to them, or whether the gods will cause me to fill by the hands of the Achaeans."

IliadBook 6, Line 359Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 6

HomerProseID iliad-iliad-butler-en-prose-6-359