Homer Quotes About Priam
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Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
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Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house.
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There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
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