It is no cause for anger that the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans have suffered… — Homer
It is no cause for anger that the Trojans and the well-greaved Achaeans have suffered for so long over such a woman: she is wondrously like the immortal goddesses to look upon.
In the original Greek
οὐ νέμεσις Τρῶας καὶ ἐϋκνήμιδας Ἀχαιοὺς τοιῇδ᾽ ἀμφὶ γυναικὶ πολὺν χρόνον ἄλγεα πάσχειν: αἰνῶς ἀθανάτῃσι θεῇς εἰς ὦπα ἔοικεν:
The Iliad · 700 BC
★ 2.3On Helen of Troy.
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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 3, l. 156.
Original citation
Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 3, l. 156.