“No shame in running,
fleeing disaster, even in pitch darkness.
Better to flee from death than feel its grip.”

— Homér, Iliad

XIV. 80–81 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Richmond Lattimore's translation:
: There is no shame in running, even by night, from disaster.
The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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