The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) [Hardcover] [2010] (Author) Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, Coralie Bickford-Smith, E. V. Rieu, Peter Jones Quotes

“Let any of the rest, whose heart and spirit are urgent for it, come up and try me, since you have irritated me so, either at boxing or wrestling or in a foot race, I begrudge nothing; any of the Phaiakians, that is, except Laodamas himself, for he is my host; who would fight with his friend? Surely any man can be called insensate and good for nothing who in an alien community offers to challenge his friend and host in the games. He damages what is his. No, but I refuse not one of the rest, nor do I scorn him, but I am willing to look in his eyes and be tested against him. I am not bad in any of the contests where men strive.”
― Homer, The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) [Hardcover] [2010] (Author) Homer, D. C. H. Rieu, Coralie Bickford-Smith, E. V. Rieu, Peter Jones