Death
Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love (after she has been injured by Diomedes), telling her daughter that "the man who fights the gods does not live long" and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap (5.407-409).
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“Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
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—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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