The single best augury is to fight for one's country.
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Thou knowst the oer-eager vehemence of youth,How quick in temper, and in judgement weak.
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.
Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.