My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius
His descent was like nightfall.
But listen to me first and swear an oath to use all your eloquence and strength to look after me and protect me.
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
Is he not sacred, even to the gods, the wandering man who comes in weariness?
Nay if even in the house of Hades the dead forget their dead, yet will I even there be mindful of my dear comrade.
There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Victory passes back and forth between men.