Is it that he would be ‘a doughty warrior too’ not if he alone were a good fighter, but if he made all his men like himself; and ‘a good king’ not if he merely ordered his own life aright, but if he made his subjects happy as well?“‘both a good king and a doughty warrior too’?
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Or what reason can Homer have for praising Agamemnon as
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