Sublime

but the Gods On man bestow not all their gifts at once;

but now old age, The common lot of mortals, weighs thee down;

the lesson thou shalt learn Shall cause thee shudder but to hear it nam'd."

Yet with the chariots can I still go forth, And aid with sage advice: for such the right And privilege of age;

The Iliad may have been written by one man. It may have been written by a hundred men. But let us remember that there was more unity in those times in a hundred men than there is unity now in one man. Then a city was like one man. Now one man is like a city in civil war.