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me.’
‘My good brother,’ answered Hector, ‘you fight bravely,
and no man with any justice can make light of your doings
in battle. But you are careless and wilfully remiss. It grieves
me to the heart to hear the ill that the Trojans speak about
you, for they have suffered much on your account. Let us
be going, and we will make things right hereafter, should
Jove vouchsafe us to set the cup of our deliverance before
ever-living gods of heaven in our own homes, when we have
chased the Achaeans from Troy.’
1 The Iliad