Homer

Homer (flourished 700 BCE)

"I have known men who saved their country, even though their own people were inferior, by relying on their own brute force, their bravery and their numbers."

• From The Iliad (Book 17, approx. line 330) by Homer, translated by E. V. Rieu and revised by Peter Jones (Penguin Classics, 2014).

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