“But let us hurry home, since it is far better to escape dreadful-sounding war than to die.”
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ἡμεῖς δ’ αἶψα νεώμεθ’, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιόν ἐστιν
ἐκφυγέειν πολέμοιο δυσηχέος ἢ ἀπολέσθαι.
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 6.30-31
“But let us hurry home, since it is far better to escape dreadful-sounding war than to die.”
—
ἡμεῖς δ’ αἶψα νεώμεθ’, ἐπεὶ πολὺ λώιόν ἐστιν
ἐκφυγέειν πολέμοιο δυσηχέος ἢ ἀπολέσθαι.