The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. — Homer Copy Share Image
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. — Homer Copy Share Image
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them. — Homer Copy Share Image
“so evenly was strained their war and battle, till the moment when Zeus gave the greater renown to Hector, son of Priam,… — Homer Copy Share Image
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all… — Homer Copy Share Image
“And what if one of the gods does wreck me out on the wine-dark sea? I have a heart that is inured… — Homer Copy Share Image
The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death. — Homer Copy Share Image
Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although… — Homer Copy Share Image
The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king. — Homer Copy Share Image
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back… — Homer Copy Share Image
“And so their spirits soared as they took positions own the passageways of battle all night long, and the watchfires blazed among… — Homer Copy Share Image
“And let Apollo drive Prince Hector back to battle, breathe power back in his lungs, make him forget the pain that racks… — Homer Copy Share Image
We battle on in words, as always, mere words, and what's the cure? We cannot find a thing. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Odysseus is a migrant, but he is also a political and military leader, a strategist, a poet, a loving husband and father,… — Homer Copy Share Image
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars… — Homer Copy Share Image
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held… — Homer Copy Share Image
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Lions don't come to terms with men, the wolf don't see eye to eye with the lamb - they are enemies to… — Homer Copy Share Image
I have suffered much from waves and wars, and now let this trial join the rest. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would… — Homer Copy Share Image
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before. — Homer Copy Share Image
The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of that man skilled in all ways of contending, the wanderer, harried for years… — Homer Copy Share Image
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. — Homer Copy Share Image
“And Zeus said: “Hera, you can choose some other time for paying your visit to Oceanus — for the present let us devote ourselves… — Homer Copy Share Image
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for… — Homer Copy Share Image
“With that the dream departed, leaving him there, his heart racing with hopes that would not come to pass. He thought he would take… — Homer Copy Share Image
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. — Homer Copy Share Image
