Quote #12

Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. I'm aggrieved when sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

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  1. 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 …
  2. In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.
  3. These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.
  4. Homer, the sovereign poet.
  5. And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.
  6. Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.
  7. 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.
  8. As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew.

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