So I will never live at the beck and call of Zeus! No, at his royal ease, and powerful as he is, let him rest content with his third of the world.

So I will never live at the beck and call of Zeus!
No, at his royal ease, and powerful as he is,
let him rest content with his third of the world.

– Homer

The Iliad, Book 15, lines 231-233. Sea god Poseidon’s angry reply, when the most powerful god Zeus sends the messenger goddess Iris to Poseidon to tell him to stay out of the Trojan War.

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