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“May I lie dead under the barrow that I heaped over my body ere I hear your cry as they carry you into bondage” … “‘My own wife do not take these things too bitterly to hear. No one can hurry me down to hades before my time, but if a man’s hour has come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him once he has been born’” p67

“Thus did the old man charge them, for he had been in many a fight, and King Agamemnon was glad. ‘ I wish,’ he said to them, ‘that your limbs were as supple and your strength as sure as your judgment is; by age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.’” P44