William C. Hall

“Athena stroked Odysseus with her wand. She shriveled the supple skin on his lithe limbs, stripped the russet curls from his head, covered his body top to toe with the wrinkled hide of an old man and dimmed the fire in his eyes, so shining once. She turned his shirt and cloak into squalid rags, ripped and filthy, smeared with grime and soot. She flung over this the long pelt of a bounding deer, 500 rubbed bare, and gave him a staff and beggar’s sack, torn and tattered, slung from a fraying rope.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“Give up the girl? I swear she will grow old
at home in Argos, far from her own country,
working my loom and visiting my bed.”
― Homer, The Iliad

“The doubtful legitimacy of such rough coercion did not disturb the mind of Venn. It troubles few such minds in such cases, and sometimes this is not to be regretted. From the impeachment of Strafford to Farmer Lynch's short way with the scamps of Virginia there have been many triumphs of justice which are mockeries of law.”
― Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native

“who governs a kingdom vast, proud and strong — who upholds justice, true, and the black earth bears wheat and barley, trees bow down with fruit and the sheep drop lambs and never fail and the sea teems with fish —thanks to his decent, upright rule, and under his sovereign sway the people flourish.”
― Homer, The Odyssey