id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt homer-iliad_12-800 homer homer-iliad_12-800 -800 .txt text/plain 4788 126 69 The eagle let go her hold; she did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be— with ourselves; even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the Achaeans, and they give way before us ,still we shall not return in good order by the way we came, but shall leave many a man behind us whom the Achaeans will do to death in defence of their ships. If, indeed, great Jove is minded to help the Trojans, and in his anger will utterly destroy the Achaeans, I would myself gladly see them perish now and here far from Argos; but if they should rally and we are driven back from the ships pell- mell into the trench there will be not so much as a man get back to the city to tell the tale. cache/homer-iliad_12-800.txt txt/homer-iliad_12-800.txt