The Iliad 23.784–786

Then Antilochus bare away the last prize, smiling the while, and spake among the Argives, saying: Among you all that know it well, will I declare, my friends, that even to this day the immortals shew honour to older men. For Aias is but a little older than I,whereas Odysseus is of an earlier generation and of earlier men—a green old age is his, men say—yet hard were he for any other Achaean to contend with in running, save only for Achilles. So spake he,and gave glory to the son of Peleus, swift of foot. And Achilles made answer, and spake to him, saying: