And someday one will say, one of the men to come steering his oar-swept ship across the wine-dark sea 'there's the mound of a man who died in the old days, one of the brave whom glorious Hector killed.' So they will say, someday, and my fame will never die.

And someday one will say, one of the men to come
steering his oar-swept ship across the wine-dark sea
‘there’s the mound of a man who died in the old days,
one of the brave whom glorious Hector killed.’
So they will say, someday, and my fame will never die.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 7, lines 101-105. Hector, who has challenged the best of the Achaeans to fight a duel with him, imagines one day a traveler arriving to the burial place of the Greek hero he will defeat. The defeated warrior’s bravery and his own fame and glory will be celebrated, says Hector.

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