“Brave as you are, and like a god in looks, Akhilleus, do not send Akhaian soldiers into the fight unfed! Today’s mêlée will not be brief, when rank meets rank, and heaven breathes fighting spirit into both contenders. No, tell all troops who are near the ships to take 180 roast meat and wine, for heart and staying power. No soldier can fight hand to hand, in hunger, all day long until the sun goes down! Though in his heart he yearns for war, his legs go slack before he knows it: thirst and famine search him out, and his knees fail as he moves. But that man stayed with victualing and wine can
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Even Odysseus knew feasted cardio isz bullshit.
