Iliad

let him, then, that will fight me stand forward as your champion against Hektor. Thus I say, and may Zeus be witness between us. If your champion slay me, let him strip me of my armor and take it to your ships, but let him send my body home that the Trojans and their wives may give me my dues of fire when I am dead. In like manner, if Apollo grant me glory and I slay your champion, I will strip him of his armor and take it to the city of Ilion , where I will hang it in the temple of Apollo, but I will give up his body, that the Achaeans may bury him at their ships, and the build him a tomb [ sêma ] by the wide waters of the Hellespont . Then will one say hereafter as he sails his ship over the sea [ pontos ], ‘This is the marker [ sêma ] of one who died long since a champion who was slain by mighty Hektor.’ Thus will one say, and my fame [ kleos ] shall not be lost."

IliadBook 7, Line 73Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 7

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