Achilles: “O shining Odysseus, never try to console me for dying.
I would rather follow the plow as thrall to another
man, one with no land allotted him and not much to live on,
than be a king over all the perished dead.”
--Homer, The Odyssey (6th Century B.C.).
[Translated by Richard Lattimore.]
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