Iliad 5.440–442

Apollo to Diomedes over the wounded Aeneas

φράζεο Τυδεΐδη καὶ χάζεο, μηδὲ θεοῖσιν

ἶσʼ ἔθελε φρονέειν, ἐπεὶ οὔ ποτε φῦλον ὁμοῖον

ἀθανάτων τε θεῶν χαμαὶ ἐρχομένων τʼ ἀνθρώπων.

“Take care, son of Tydeus, and give way; do not seek

to think yourself equal to the gods, for the race is never the same—

that of immortal gods and that of human beings who walk the earth.”

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