Homer - Wine Quotes

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She [Helen] threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills.

Homer

Athene sent them a following breeze, a strong west wind that whistled over the wine-dark sea.

Homer

Gray-eyed Athena sent them a favorable breeze, a fresh west wind, singing over the wine-dark sea.

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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

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Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

Homer