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Stephanus 28c
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γὰρ ἂν τῷ γε σῷ λόγῳ εἶεν τῶν ἡμιθέων ὅσοι ἐν Τροίᾳ τετελευτήκασιν οἵ τε ἄλλοι καὶ ὁ τῆς Θέτιδος υἱός, ὃς τοσοῦτον τοῦ κινδύνου κατεφρόνησεν παρὰ τὸ αἰσχρόν τι ὑπομεῖναι ὥστε, ἐπειδὴ εἶπεν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτῷ προθυμουμένῳ Ἕκτορα ἀποκτεῖναι, θεὸς οὖσα, οὑτωσί πως, ὡς ἐγὼ οἶμαι· ὦ παῖ, εἰ τιμωρήσεις Πατρόκλῳ τῷ ἑταίρῳ τὸν φόνον καὶ Ἕκτορα ἀποκτενεῖς, αὐτὸς ἀποθανῇ—αὐτίκα γάρ τοι, φησί, μεθʼ Ἕκτορα πότμος ἑτοῖμος —ὁ δὲ τοῦτο ἀκούσας τοῦ μὲν θανάτου καὶ τοῦ κινδύνου ὠλιγώρησε, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον
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the others as well as the son of Thetis, who so despised danger in comparison with enduring any disgrace that, when he was eager to kill Hector, his mother, being a goddess, said to him, as I believe, something like this: “My son, if you avenge the murder of your comrade Patroclus and kill Hector, you yourself will die—for straightway after Hector,” she says, “your death awaits you.” But when he heard this, he made light of death and danger, fearing far more
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would be all the demigods who died at Troy, including the son of Thetis. He so despised danger in comparison with enduring any disgrace that, when he was eager to kill Hector, his mother, who was a goddess, said to him something like this, as I recall: “My child, if you avenge the killing of your comrade Patroclus and kill Hector, you yourself will die—for immediately after Hector, she says, your own death is waiting.” When he heard this, he made light of death and danger, and was much more