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sdi ([personal profile] sdi) wrote2025-01-22 12:10 pm
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κείσομ’ ἐπεί κε θάνω: νῦν δὲ κλέος ἐσθλὸν ἀροίμην,

I can rest when I'm dead; for now, I must win a good name,

(Akhilles whining. Homer, Iliad XVIII 121.)

This line is so me that it's funny. (Thetis's reply, "but you don't even have any armor," is also apposite.)

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