Iliad 17.446–447
Zeus to himself, watching Achilles' horses mourn
οὐ μὲν γάρ τί πού ἐστιν ὀϊζυρώτερον ἀνδρὸς
πάντων, ὅσσά τε γαῖαν ἔπι πνείει τε καὶ ἕρπει.
For there is surely nothing more miserable than man
among all that breathe and crawl upon the earth.