“A double chance of destiny impends: If here remaining, round the walls of Troy I wage the war, I ne’er shall see my home, But then undying glory shall be mine: If I return, and see my native land, 490 My glory all is gone; but length of life Shall then be mine, and death be long deferr’d.”

“A double chance of destiny impends: If here remaining, round the walls of Troy I wage the war, I ne’er shall see my home, But then undying glory shall be mine: If I return, and see my native land, 490 My glory all is gone; but length of life Shall then be mine, and death be long deferr’d.”

— Homer