Homer, Iliad, 84-91
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hawkwing_lbIn reply to him spoke Achilleus swift of foot:
"With good courage, indeed, speak what prophecy you know:
for by Apollo beloved of Zeus, from whom you, Calchas
when you pray aloud proclaim oracles to the Danaans,
no one - while I'm full of life, strong upon the the earth -
no one among our hollow ships will lay heavy hands upon you,
not anyone among all the Danaans, not even if you say, "Agamemnon"
- the best of the Achaeans, as he now vaunts himself to be.
"With good courage, indeed, speak what prophecy you know:
for by Apollo beloved of Zeus, from whom you, Calchas
when you pray aloud proclaim oracles to the Danaans,
no one - while I'm full of life, strong upon the the earth -
no one among our hollow ships will lay heavy hands upon you,
not anyone among all the Danaans, not even if you say, "Agamemnon"
- the best of the Achaeans, as he now vaunts himself to be.
