A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

...he'll never lie - the man is far too wise.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Come, weave us a scheme so I can pay them back! Stand beside me, Athena, fire me with daring, fierce as the day we ripped Troy's glittering crown of towers down. Stand by me - furious now as then, my bright-eyed one - and I would fight three hundred men, great goddess, with you to brace me, comrade-in-arms in battle!

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

I'll get out of this city alive, even if it kills me!