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[Bevelle H. <maz...@gi...>]

 despised danger in comparison with disgrace; and when he was so eager
to slay Hector, his goddess mother said to him, that if he avenged his
companion Patroclus, and slew Hector, he would die himself--'Fate,' she
said, in these or the like words, 'waits for you next after Hector;' he,
receiving this warning, utterly despised danger and death, and instead
of fearing them, feared rather to live in dishonour, and not to avenge
his friend. 'Let me die forthwith,' he replies, 'and be avenged of my
enemy, rather than abide here by the beaked ships, a laughing-stock and
a burden of the earth.' Had Achilles any thought of death and danger?
For wherever a man's place is, whether the place which he has chosen or
that in which he has been placed by a commander, there he ought to
remain in the hour of danger; he should not think of death or of
anything but of disgrace. And this, O men of Athens, is a true saying.
Strange, indeed, would be my conduct, O men of Athens, if I who, when I
was ordered by the generals whom you chose to command me at Potidaea and
Amphipolis and