@WeissenSocken88 @BowsacNoodle " For of old, when thou wast alive, we Argives honored thee even as the gods, [485] and now that thou art here, thou rulest mightily among the dead. Wherefore grieve not at all that thou art dead, Achilles.’ “So I spoke, and he straightway made answer and said:
‘Nay, seek not to speak soothingly to me of death, glorious Odysseus. I should choose, so I might live on earth,8 to serve as the hireling of another, [490] of some portionless man whose livelihood was but small, rather than to be lord over all the dead that have perished. "