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Life and death are balanced, as it were, on the edge of a razor.
– Homer, the first and the greatest of the epic poets, thought to have lived around 850 BCE. Nestor, Knight of Gerene, speaking of the peril facing the Achaeans, in 'Book X' of The Iliad (written around 800 BCE).
