Homer Quotes

"Laertes is still alive, but night and day
he prays to Zeus, waiting there in his house,
for the life breath to slip away and leave his body.
His heart’s so racked for his son, lost and gone these years,
for his wife so fine, so wise – her death is the worst blow
he’s had to suffer – it made him old before his time.
She died of grief for her boy, her glorious boy,
it wore her down, a wretched way to go."

– Homer