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“Mother tells me, the immortal goddess Thetis with her glistening feet,
that two fates bear me in to the day of death.
If I hold out here and I lay siege on Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.
If I voyage back to the fatherland I love,
my pride, my glory dies. . .
true, but the life that left me will be long,
the stroke of death will not come on me quickly.”