If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. — Homer
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
In the original Greek
εἰ μάλα καρτερός ἐσσι, θεός που σοὶ τό γ᾽ ἔδωκεν:
The Iliad · 700 BC
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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 1, l. 178.
Original citation
Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 1, l. 178.