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And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell… — Homer

Poem · Epic poem

And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you-it’s born with us the day that we are born.

Homer
The Iliad · 700 BC
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Topic
Fate
Genre
Epic poem
Medium
Poem
Time
700 BCClassical antiquity
Person
HectorHomer
Provenance
Current citation
Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 6, l. 486-489.
Original citation
Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk 6, l. 486-489.

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