Stanley Lombardo: Quotes about men

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“Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector.
Do lions make peace treaties with men?
Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?”

Stanley Lombardo

Book XXII, lines 287–289; spoken by Achilles.
Translations, Iliad (1997)

“Ah, my friend, if you and I could only
Get out of the war alive and then
immortal and ageless all of our days,
I would never again fight among the foremost
Or send you into battle where men win glory.
But as it is, death is everywhere
In more shapes that we can count,
And since no mortal is immune or can escape,
Let's go forward, either to give glory
To another man, or get glory from him.”

Stanley Lombardo

Book XX, lines 333–342; Sarpedon to Glaucus.
Translations, Iliad (1997)

“Human generations are like leaves in their seasons.
The wind blows them to the ground, but the tree
Sprouts new ones when spring comes again.
Men too. Their generations come and go.”

Stanley Lombardo

Book VI, lines 149–152; Glaucus to Diomedes.
Translations, Iliad (1997)