"For the winner a large tripod made to stride a fire / and worth a dozen oxen, so the soldiers reckoned. / For the loser he led a woman through their midst, / worth four, they thought, and skilled in m…"

"No man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle."

"Peneleus, hits a Trojan in the face. He then cuts off the head and lifts it into the air at the end of a spear, causing the other Trojans to tremble in fear."

"The gods do not take all men's wits away."

"Sleep, delicious and profound, the very counterfeit of death."