Death is better, a milder mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
She [Helen] brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Alas, I am struck a deep mortal blow!
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on bended arm, dog- like, I have kept, marking the conclave of all night's stars, those potentates blazing in the heavens that bring winter and summer to mortal men, the constellations, when they wane, when they rise.
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
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