You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the s — Homer, The Iliad
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You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!

— Homer, The Iliad
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