Proposed now, there are infinite fates, etc.
Here the necessity of making the line,
Nor glorify a folly so, to wish thee to advance,
rhyme with the line which follows it, entirely changes and spoils the movement of the passage.
οὔτε κεν αὐτὸς ἐνὶ πρώτοισι μαχοίμην,
οὔτε κέ σε στέλλοιμι μάχην ἐς κυδιάνειραν·[[4]]
Neither would I myself go forth to fight with the foremost,
Nor would I urge thee on to enter the glorious battle,
says Homer; there he stops, and begins an opposed movement:
νῦν δ’—ἔμπης γὰρ Κῆρες ἐφεστᾶσιν θανάτοιο—