Torn by perplexity,
On your feet now!
Throw forward your chest
To the enemy;
Keep close in the attack;
Move back not an inch.
But never crow in victory,
Nor mope hangdog in loss.
Overdo neither sorrow nor joy:
A measured motion governs man.
--Archilochos, ancient Greek mercenary and poet.
Guy Davenport's translation from his 7 Greeks.
