Here is your part: at break of day tomorrow home with you, go mingle with our princes. the swineherd later on will take me down the port-side trail – a beggar, by my looks, hangdog and old. if they make fun of me in my own courtyard, let your ribs cage up your springing heart, no matter what i suffer, no matter if they pull me by the heels or practice shots at me, to drive me out. look on, hold down your anger. you may even plead with them, by heaven! in gentle terms to quit their horseplay – not that they will heed you, rash as they are, facing their day of wrath. —the odyssey, homer which lines from the passage support the theme “true strength is knowing when not to act”? “here is your part: at break of day tomorrow / home with you, go mingle with our princes.” “the swineherd later on will take me down / the port-side trail – a beggar, by my looks, / hangdog and old.” “if they make fun of me / in my own courtyard, let your ribs cage up / your springing heart, no matter what i suffer.”