Iliad 19.65–66

Achilles to Agamemnon in assembly

ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν προτετύχθαι ἐάσομεν ἀχνύμενοί περ

θυμὸν ἐνὶ στήθεσσι φίλον δαμάσαντες ἀνάγκῃ·

But grieving though we are, we will let the past be past,

subduing the spirit in our breasts because we must.

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