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He was kind, and generous and welcomed everyone who passed that way as guests inside his home. 20 None of his friends stepped in to help him now. No one protected him from bitter death. His life was taken.
That Diomedes is a maniac.
I wish that at the start, right when my mother gave birth to me, a cruel gust of wind had borne me to the mountains, or the waves of loud-resounding sea, and swept me off, before all this could happen.
Better to have a heart that thinks of others.
Do everything or nothing—death still comes.
“You good-for-nothing archer! Sleazy flirt! So rude! So cocky in your silly hairstyle!
Only a person with the toughest heart could look at so much suffering with joy rather than sorrow.
“Ajax, you are such a peasant! Your words are always wrong. A stupid speech!
Great Zeus has granted us, from youth to age, a life that loops from war to painful war, till each of us lies dead.
Danger was everywhere, pain piled on pain.
