You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
HomerI have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men
HomerYoung men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer