You cannot imagine, it seems to me, in the world that Hesiod describes, Achilles or anybody else saying, "Well, you insulted me and so I'm not going to fight anymore for my polis."

对我来说,你无法想象,在赫西奥德描述的世界中,阿喀琉斯或其他人说,"好吧,你侮辱了我,因此我不会再为我的城邦作战"

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Okay, now when you're fighting, if you're fortunate enough, and the Greeks were sometimes fortunate enough to fight people who were not hoplites, like when the Persians came at them they fought hoplites against non-hoplites.

好的,当你进行战斗时,如果你运气够好,而希腊人有时也够走运,能和非方阵的战士战斗,比如当波斯人前来叫阵,他们就是以方阵部队对抗非方阵部队

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