It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive.
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.