well-corsleted

Updated: May 15, 2025

Therefore now it behoveth us to take our stand in the first rank of the Lykians, and encounter fiery battle, that certain of the well-corsleted Lykians may say, 'Verily our kings that rule Lykia be no inglorious men, they that eat fat sheep, and drink the choice wine honey-sweet: nay, but they are also of excellent might, for they war in the foremost ranks of the Lykians. Ah, friend, if once escaped from this battle we were for ever to be ageless and immortal, neither would I fight myself in the foremost ranks, nor would I send thee into the war that giveth men renown, but now for assuredly ten thousand fates of death do every way beset us, and these no mortal may escape nor avoid now let us go forward, whether we shall give glory to other men, or others to us."

Homer - The Iliad