"Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now peo…"

"For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!"

"The father is a fool who makes his son a king."

"The gods love to thwart a man when he is growing too great."

"Odysseus grabbed her throat with his right hand and told her he 'will not spare [her] when [he] kill[s] the rest, / the other slave women, although [she was] / [his] nurse'."