This is the one best omen, to fight in defense of one's country. — Homer
This is the one best omen, to fight in defense of one's country.
In the original Greek
εἷς οἰωνὸς ἄριστος ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ πάτρης.
The Iliad · 700 BC
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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 12, l. 243.
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Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 12, l. 243.