Quote #9

And you, old sir, we are told you prospered once.

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  1. 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.
  2. These things surely lie on the knees of the gods.
  3. Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.
  4. 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 …
  5. Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus. I'm aggrieved when sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
  6. 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…
  7. In the Odyssey one may liken Homer to the setting sun, of which the grandeur remains without the intensity.
  8. Victory passes back and forth between men.

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