Odyssey 11.489–491

βουλοίμην κʼ ἐπάρουρος ἐὼν θητευέμεν ἄλλῳ,

ἀνδρὶ παρʼ ἀκλήρῳ, ᾧ μὴ βίοτος πολὺς εἴη,

ἢ πᾶσιν νεκύεσσι καταφθιμένοισιν ἀνάσσειν.

I would rather work the fields as a hired laborer for another,

some landless man with barely enough to live on,

than rule over all the wasted dead.