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Achilles and Aeneas
As in the Iliad, Book 20, when
at last Achilles makes his way to fight the Trojans, blind Homer has him pause and shout a taunting speech at his opponent Aeneas, who then, nothing daunted, stretches the moment of suspense until it breaks, holding forth like some Demosthenes in an even longer speech where he accuses Achilles of dallying around with words when he should be thrusting hard-edged bronze: even so the election season carries on too long. 23 October 2012
From the Daily Whale.
A Homeric simile in the style of Robert Fitzgerald’s translation of the Iliad, except that (like almost everyone in English) I Latinize the Greek names.
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