"Give me your armor to put on your shoulders;
The Trojans might suppose I was you,
Hold back, and give the Acheans' sons a breather,
For breathing spells in war are very few.
Then, with a shout, fresh men might easily
Turn tired men from the ships toward the city."

"When Hector the man-killer swats you down like flies. And you will eat your heart out

Because you failed to honor the best Greek of all."

"But, as it is, death is everywhere

In more shapes than we can count, 

And since no mortal is immune or can escape,

Let's go forward, either to give glory

To another man, or get glory from him."

"Death should have been sweeter to me. 

None of it was to be,

And lamenting it has been my slow death."

"This is terrible; it's going to ruin us all. 

If you two quarrel like this over mortals

It's bound to affect us gods. There'll be no more

Pleasure in our feasts if we let things turn ugly."

"He cheated me, wrong me. Never again. 

He's had it. He can go to hell in peace,

The half-wit Zeus has made him.

His gifts? His gifts mean nothing to me."

"Everything you say is after my own heart.

But I swell with rage when I think of how 

The son of Atreus reated me like dirt." 

"Do lions make peace treaties with men? 

Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?

No, they hate each other to the core

And that's how it is between you and me."

"A man may lose someone dearer than Achilles has,

A brother from the same womb, or a son, 

But when he has wept and mourned, he lets go.

The Fates have given men an enduring heart."

"When you two speak, a man has to listen

No matter how angry. It's better that way.

Obey the gods and they hear your when you pray."

"It's a sad day for Greece, a sad day. 

You are stronger, and it is a goddess who bore you.

But he is more powerful, since he rules over more. 

"But this man wants to be ahead of everyone else,

He wants to rule everyone, give orders to everyone."

"Since life is short for you, all too brief.

Now you're destined for both an early death 

And misery beyond compare."

"You Achaeans are a disgrace, Achaen women, not men!

Let's sail home in our ships and live him here.

He dishonored Achilles, who's a much better man."

"You're nothing but trash. There no one lower. If I don't lay hold of you, strip your ass naked,

And run you out of the assembly and through the ships,

Crying at all the ugly licks I land on you."

"We're going to war.

We're going to fight all day and hate every minute

Without any breaks until its too dark to see."

"But I am not to blame. Zeus is, and Fate, and the Dark Avenger, who put a fit of madness on me.

But what could I do? Gods decide everything."

"Where has your will to fight gone, Hector? 

You used to say you could hold the city without any allies, 

just yourself."

"Think it over, son of Tydeus, and get back.

Don't set your sights on the gods. 

Gods are to humans what humans are to crawling bugs."

"Well, my friends, we always thought Hector

Was a good man with a spear, a real fighter.

It turns out a god is always at his side.

Don't be too eager to fight with the gods."

"For shame, Greeks! You're all show & no fight. 

When godlike Achilles used to enter battle

The Trojans wouldn't so much as leave their gates."

"You're not very much like your father you know.

But you, I stand by you, I protect you, 

I tell you not to worry, to fight the Trojans.

No, you're no son of Tydeus."

"Father Zeus, doesn't it infuriate you to see violence?

We gods get the worst of it from each other

Whenever we try to help out men."

"Going soft, Menelaus? What does this man mean to you?

Have the Trojans ever shown you any hospitality?

"So we can't cross spears with each other.

And let's exchange armor, so everyone will know

That we are friends from our father's days."

"But my shame before the Trojans & their wives, 

With their long robes trailing, would be too terrible

If I hung back from battle like a coward. 

And my heart won't let me."

"War is the work of men, of all the Trojan men, 

and mine especially."

"My friends, the lot is mine, and I'm glad of it,

Because I think I'm going to beat Hector. 

No one can drive me off against my will

By force or skill. I was born and bred

In Salamis, and I know I am no fool."

"Take a good look, Hector. This is what 

The heroes are like in the Greek army.

But we still have a few good men to fight you.

More than a few. It's your move"

"Let us give Helen of Argos to Atreus' sons. 

This is our only hope."

"But if you really mean what you are saying, 

Then the gods must have destroyed your wits.

I won't give her back. 

But the treasure I brough with her from Argos

I will give back, and add some of my own."

 Diomedes responds to Paris's idea of ceasing fighting so they can burn the dead.

"Accept nothign from Alexander, 

Not even Helen! Even a fool can see

The noose is tightening around the Trojans."

"I can no longer countenance our fighting with Zeus

For the sake of mere mortals. Let one fall

And another live, as chance may have it all."

"Clear out with our ships and head for home.

There's no hope we will take Troy's tall town."

"Are you out of your mind? Do you really think the sons of the Achaeans are unwarlike and weak? If you yourself are 

anxious to go home, then go. We came here with Zeus."

"You took his prize and keep it still. But it is not too late.

Even now we must think of how to win him back

With appeasing gifts and soothings words."

Menelaus

 Makes the suggestion that he & Paris fight to the death and whoever wins gets to keep Helen & the war will end. 

"Younger men always have their heads in the clouds. 

An old man looks ahead & behind, and the result

Is far better for both parties involved."

"Who could blame either the Trojans or Greeks 

For suffering so long for a woman like this.

Her eyes are not human."

"You are not to blame for this war with the Greeks. 

The gods are."

"Should we let war rage again

Or establish peace between the two sides?"

Agamemnon promises Menelaus after he is wounded by a Trojan arrow & the truce is broken. 

(Book 4)

"Deep down inside I know this for sure:

There will come a day when holy Troy will perish."

"Why are you lagging back here, waiting for others. 

Both of you are first in line when you hear

I am giving a feast for the council of elders."

"Ah, Earthshaker, you have all that power,

But no pity in your heart for the Danaans dying. 

And yet they honor you with many lovely gifts, and 

up until now you wanted victory for them. 

"Gods are easy to recognize. As for me, 

I never felt readier for battle. I'm itching to fight

All the way down to my fingers & toes."

"But even if Agamemnon is completely to blame

For all this, because he dishonored Achilles, 
That's no reason for us go slack in war.

Let's do what good men do and make amends.  

Not you, our army's the best. You've gone soft!"

"Achilles' dark heart must be laughing now, as he sees

The panic and slaughter of the Greeks. 

The man hasn't a shred of sense left, none, 

Damn him! May some god cripple him. 

But the blessed ones aren't with you, not yet.

There's still a chance you will see."

"Zeus on high has made our oaths nothing. 

Hostile to both sides, he means for us to fight."

"It seems we're good at threatening the Trojans, 

But when it comes down to it we're women, not men!

May you all turn to mud, sitting here

Without any guts and no call to glory!

I'll put on armor myself. Win or lose, 

It's all in the hands of the immortal gods."

"Father Zeus, no god curses us more than you. 

I thought Paris was going to pay for his crimes."

"What about all those boasts, Aeneaus, 

To the Trojan princes over your winw

That you would take on Achilles man to man?"

"The rest of you can go out among the Greeks & Trojans, 

and help whichever side you please. And now he (Achilles) is in his passion. I fear he may exceed his fate and demolish the wall."

"There's no way for a man to fight Achilles. 

Some god is always there to protect him."
 

"Let's one of us at least stand by Achilles

So he'll know that the best of the gods love him 

And the others are worhtless as the wind, all those

Divinities who have protected Troy in this war."

"Don't think you can scare me off with words, 

Son of Peleus, as if I were a child. 

I boast that my mother is Aphrodite."

"Alas for great-hearted Aeneas, who will now

Be killed by Achilles and go down to Hades

Because he innocently obeyed Apollo.

Why should he a guiltless man now suffer?

And now Aeneas will rule the Trojans with might."

"I'm going after him, even if he has hands of fire, 

Hands of fire, and fury like cold steel."

"Do not challenge Achilles, Hector. 

Wait for him in the throng to lesson the chance

Of being hit by his spear or his sword close in."

"Fate has it that Sarpedon, whom I love more than 

any man is to be killed by Patroclus."

"Glaucus, it's time to show what you've made of

And be the warrior you've always been, 

Heart set on evil -- if you're fast enough. 

Shame on you, until the dying day, if the Greeks

Strip my body bare besire their ships

Be strong and keep the others going. 

"Sarpedon is dead. Zeus will not save his own son.

Heal my wound & deaden my pain.

And give me strength to call the Lycians

And urge them on to fight, and do battle myself

About the body of my fallen comrade."

"Hector, you have abandoned your allies. 

We have been putting our lives on the line for you

Far from our homes and loved ones, 

And you don't care enough to lend us aid. 

Sarpedon is down

Show some pride and fight for his body, 

Or the Myrmidons will strip off the armor and defile his corpse."

"Let me see you push these Trojans back

Sarpedon is down, first to breach our wall. 

He's ours, to carve up his body and strip the armor off. 

And all his little saviors are ours to massacre with cold bronze."

"We should not fight the Dannass for their ships.

It will turn out for us just as with this bird

That came to the Trojans as they were eager to cross.

We will find ourselves beating a disordely retrait from the ships." 

"You want me to obey birds, Polydamas? All we have to do is obey great Zeus. 

One omen is best: to fight for your country."

"What will become of our compacts and oaths?

We are wrangling with words now.

Son of Atreus, assert yourself and resume your command of the Greek forces in all their grueling battles." 

"Let us remain gathered here no longer

Nor delay the works that the gods have given us.

Have the hearld of the bronze-armored Greeks 

Make proclamation all through the ships

And muster the army. We will patrol camp

In a group, to waken Ares more quickly."

"We don't get to choose what the god's give us, you know, 

And we can't just toss their gifts aside. 

So all right, if you want me to fight, fine."

"Achilles, we know how good you are, 

But don't send our men out to fight the Trojans 

Without any food in their stomachs."

"I don't need you to prophesy my death, Xanthus.

I know in my bone sI will die here. Still I won't stop until I have made the Trojans sick of war."

"This time we will save you, but your hour is near. 

We can outrun the West Wind, but it your destiny to 

Be overpower by a mortal and a god."

"Since more come through alive when men consider each 

And there is no glory when they give way."