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Homer Quotes

Homer (Ancient Greek: Ὅμηρος) 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.

Also known as: Homer's Odyssey, Homeric

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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.

Διὸς δ’ ἐτελείετο βουλή.
[Dios d'eteleieto boule.]
The will of Zeus was accomplished.

I have endured what no one on earth has ever done before—
I put to my lips the hands of the man who killed my son.

Iliad (-750)

Oh but if Zeus's lightning blinded us those days,
it's Zeus who drives us, hurls us on today!

Iliad (-750)

In form of Stentor of the brazen voice,
Whose shout was as the shout of fifty men.

Iliad (-750)

The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there
of every kind, the range of words is wide, and their variance.

Iliad (-750)

And uncontrollable laughter broke from the happy gods
as they watched the god of fire breathing hard
and bustling through the halls.

Iliad (-750)

But if you're a man who eats the crops of the earth,
a mortal born for death—here, come closer,
the sooner you will meet your day to die!

Iliad (-750)

Andromache! my soul's far better part.

If only strife could die from the lives of gods and men
and anger that drives the sanest man to flare in outrage—
bitter gall, sweeter than dripping streams of honey,
that swarms in people's chests and blinds like smoke.

Iliad (-750)

Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.

No living man can send me to the shades
Before my time; no man of woman born,
Coward or brave, can shun his destiny.

A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.

Content to follow when we lead the way.

Forever honour'd, and forever mourn'd.

No season now for calm, familiar talk.

It is not right to glory in the slain.

The matchless Ganymede, divinely fair.

With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

The windy satisfaction of the tongue.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Homer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.