Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you.
Iliad and Odyssey
Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you.
Iliad and Odyssey
The Iliad, spoken by Achilles to Lycaon
c. 8th Century BCE
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