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Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
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Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.
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And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
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The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot.
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Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
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Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.
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I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country.
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The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay!
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
[Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]
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Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
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It is always the latest song that an audience applauds the most.
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Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends, And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends; White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud: Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears; And instant death on every wave appears.
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Not two strong men the enormous weight could raise,- Such men as live in these degenerate days.
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It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
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For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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Just are the ways of heaven; from Heaven proceed
The woes of man: Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed.
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Jove lifts the golden balances that show
The fates of mortal men, and things below.
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So peaceful shalt thou end thy blissful days, And steal thyself from life by slow decays.
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And endless are the modes of speech, and far
Extends from side to side the field of words.
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We cannot all hope to combine the pleasing qualities of good looks, brains, and eloquence.
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But sure the eye of time beholds no name,
So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
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Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
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Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.
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And they die an equal death — the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
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The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things.
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Homer is best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon.
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Iliad
Odyssey
Homeric Hymns
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