Quote #10
These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.
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- And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.
- But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes …
- I have gone through what no other mortal on earth has gone through; I put my lips to the hands of the man who has killed my children.
- Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. I'm aggrieved when sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
- Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.
- In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.
- Homer, the sovereign poet.
- Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle, would be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal, so neither would I myself go on fighti…