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What does this quote for Homer (800 BC - 700 BC) mean?
Asked by archaeopteryx (1004)
April 25th, 2009
The quote says: “It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.”
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