piscesnoalbafica:Prince Hector of Troy, one of the Nine Worthies. “Alas! the gods have lured me on

piscesnoalbafica: Prince Hector of Troy, one of the Nine Worthies. “Alas! the gods have lured me on to my destruction. … death is now indeed exceedingly near at hand and there is no way out of it- for so Zeus and his son Apollo the far-darter have willed it, though heretofore they have been ever ready to protect me. My doom has come upon me; let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” Hector facing Achilles, after a missed spear-throw The Iliad Book XXII Lines 299-305 -- source link
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