Achilles absent was Achilles still!

…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with leaves again in the spring.

out of sight,out of mind

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time