Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
fighting fate men
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
fighting swings skills
Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.
fighting men blood
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
fighting total-war
Even the bravest cannot fight beyond his power
success fighting men
It's man's to fight, but heaven's to give success.
fighting men fire
Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!
fighting men steel
Steel itself oft lures a man to fight.
fighting men limits
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
peace war fighting
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.
country fighting men
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
country fighting patriotism
The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
fighting iliad strive
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
country fighting defense
One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
military fighting battle
The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.