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“Some say an army on horseback,
some say on foot, and some say ships
are the most beautiful things
on this black earth,
but I say
it is whatever you love.”

Stanley Lombardo

Frag. 31
Translations, Sappho's Poems and Fragments (2002)

“Don't try to sell me on death, Odysseus.
I'd rather be a hired hand back up on earth,
Slaving away for some poor dirt farmer,
Than lord it over all these withered dead.”

Stanley Lombardo

Book XI, lines 510–513; spoken by the ghost of Achilles.
Translations, Odyssey (2000)

“I have borne what no man
Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne.
I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.”

Stanley Lombardo

Book XXIV, lines 541–543; Priam to Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)