“I say further, and lay my saying to your heart, you too shall live but for a little season; death and the day of your doom are close upon you, and they will lay you low by the hand of Achilles son of Aiakos.”

—  Homér , Iliad

XVI (tr. S. Butler); Patroclus to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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