"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice β A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."
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Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer (1715-1720), Book III, line 199.
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