field-waterer

Updated: May 6, 2025

As when a field-waterer from a dark spring leadeth water along a bed through crops and garden grounds, a mattock in his hands, casting forth hindrances from the ditch, and as it floweth all pebbles are swept down, and swiftly gliding it murmureth down a sloping place, and outrunneth him that is its guide: thus ever the river wave caught up Achilles for all his speed; for gods are mightier than men.

Homer - The Iliad