The persuasion of a friend is a strong thing.
One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.
Beyond his strength no man can fight, although he be eager.
By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
I war not with the dead.