Friday, September 10, 2021
Bloody-Minded
Homer, Iliad 19.213-214 (Achilles speaking; tr. Peter Green):
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So it's not such things that at all concern me now,
but killing, and blood, and the groans of dying men.
τό μοι οὔ τι μετὰ φρεσὶ ταῦτα μέμηλεν,
ἀλλὰ φόνος τε καὶ αἷμα καὶ ἀργαλέος στόνος ἀνδρῶν.