Diagnostic Test 12

The translator notes in a footnote that certain honorifics have no direct English equivalent.

My spear feels light, but my heart is heavier than the shield I lift; what if our glory is only smoke in a wind I do not command?

The chorus hails the city-gates, praising laws that outlive any man.

We crossed the wine-dark sea, counting islands like beads, until a foreign shore welcomed our oars.