Better to flee from death than feel its grip.
One omen is best, to fight in defense of one's country.
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind
All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.
[But] age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.