Homer Quotes

I am foremost of all the Trojan warriors to stave the day of bondage from off them; as for you, vultures shall devour you here.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.

εἰ μέν κ᾽ αὖθι μένων Τρώων πόλιν ἀμφιμάχωμαι,
ὤλετο μέν μοι νόστος, ἀτὰρ κλέος ἄφθιτον ἔσται.

For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate.

Τλητὸν γὰρ Μοῖραι θυμὸν θέσαν ἀνθρώποισιν.

Troy has perished, the great city.
Only the red flame now lives there.

The dust is rising, spreading out like a great wing of smoke and all is hidden.
We now are gone, one here, one there.
And Troy is gone forever.

Farewell, dear city.
Farewell, my country, where my children lived.
There below, the Greek ships wait.

Ὣς ἄρα φωνήσαντε καθ' ἵππων ἀΐξαντε
χεῖράς τ' ἀλλήλων λαβέτην καὶ πιστώσαντο·
ἔνθ' αὖτε Γλαύκῳ Κρονίδης φρένας ἐξέλετο Ζεύς,
ὃς πρὸς Τυδεΐδην Διομήδεα τεύχε' ἄμειβε
χρύσεα χαλκείων, ἑκατόμβοι' ἐννεαβοίων.

Δειλαί τοι δειλῶν γε καὶ ἐγγύαι ἐγγυάασθαι.

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you.

Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things!

If indeed there be a god in heaven.

Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power

Στρεπτὴ δὲ γλῶσσ' ἐστὶ βροτῶν, πολέες δ' ἔνι μῦθοι
παντοῖοι, ἐπέων δὲ πολὺς νομὸς ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα.