“I would rather serve as slave to another man
a man with no land and livelihood
than be a king over all the rotted corpses”
βουλοίμην κ’ ἐπάρουρος ἐὼν θητευέμεν ἄλλῳ,
ἀνδρὶ παρ’ ἀκλήρῳ, ᾧ μὴ βίοτος πολὺς εἴη,
ἢ πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι καταφθιμένοισιν ἀνάσσειν.
Achilles’ words to Odysseus (according, of course, to Odysseus)
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