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The Iliad 13.222–230

The Iliad 13.222–230
nor doth any through dread withdraw him from evil war, but even thus, I ween, must it be the good pleasure of the son of Cronos, supreme in might, that the Achaeans should perish here far from Argos, and have no name. But, Thoas, seeing that aforetime thou wast ever staunch in fight, and dost also urge on another, wheresoever thou seest one shrinking from fight, therefore now cease thou not, but call to every man.
Θόαν οὔ τις ἀνὴρ νῦν γʼ αἴτιος, ὅσσον ἔγωγε γιγνώσκω· πάντες γὰρ ἐπιστάμεθα πτολεμίζειν. οὔτέ τινα δέος ἴσχει ἀκήριον οὔτέ τις ὄκνῳ εἴκων ἀνδύεται πόλεμον κακόν· ἀλλά που οὕτω μέλλει δὴ φίλον εἶναι ὑπερμενέϊ Κρονίωνι νωνύμνους ἀπολέσθαι ἀπʼ Ἄργεος ἐνθάδʼ Ἀχαιούς. ἀλλὰ Θόαν, καὶ γὰρ τὸ πάρος μενεδήϊος ἦσθα, ὀτρύνεις δὲ καὶ ἄλλον ὅθι μεθιέντα ἴδηαι· τὼ νῦν μήτʼ ἀπόληγε κέλευέ τε φωτὶ ἑκάστῳ.
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