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“Now sure enough the vile man leads the vile!
As ever, god brings like and like together!”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XVII. 217–218 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“She who is only a little thing at the first, but thereafter
grows until she strides on the earth with her head striking heaven.”

Homér Iliad

IV. 442–443 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Once a thing has been done, the fool sees it.”

Homér Iliad

XVII. 32 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Sweet oblivion, sleep
dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XX. 85–86 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy,
my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies.”

Homér Iliad

IX. 413 (tr. Robert Fagles); spoken by Achilles.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Here let us feast, and to the feast be joined
Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind;
Review the series of our lives, and taste
The melancholy joy of evils passed:
For he who much has suffered, much will know,
And pleased remembrance builds delight on woe.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XV. 398–401 (tr. Alexander Pope).
E. V. Rieu's translation:
: Meanwhile let us two, here in the hut, over our food and wine, regale ourselves with the unhappy memories that each can recall. For a man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far can enjoy even his sufferings after a time.
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Helios, Sun above us, you who see all, hear all things!”

Homér Iliad

III. 277 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales,
And the good suffers, while the bad prevails.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

VI. 188 (tr. Alexander Pope).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“It's wrong, my friend, to send any stranger packing—
even one who arrives in worse shape than you.
Every stranger and beggar comes from Zeus
and whatever scrap they get from the likes of us,
they'll find it welcome.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XIV. 56–59 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“I hope nothing valuable may have been taken from the house in spite of you, but you know what women are—they always want to do the best they can for the man who marries them, and never give another thought to the children of their first husband, nor to their father either when he is dead and done with.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XV. 19–23 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Among all creatures that breathe on earth and crawl on it
there is not anywhere a thing more dismal than man is.”

Homér Iliad

XVII. 446–447 (tr. R. Lattimore); Zeus.
Robert Fagles's translation:
: There is nothing alive more agonized than man
of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“Glory to him, but to us a sorrow.”

Homér Iliad

IV. 197 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“We two have secret signs,
known to us both but hidden from the world.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

XXIII. 109–110 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“I'll fling a spear myself and leave the rest to Zeus.”

Homér Iliad

XVII. 515 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“See now, how men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

I. 32–34 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“Who, on his own,
has ever really known who gave him life?”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

I. 216 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“He in the turning dust lay
mightily in his might, his horsemanship all forgotten.”

Homér Iliad

XVI. 775–776 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“He will tell you no lies, for he is an excellent person.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

III. 328 (tr. Samuel Butler).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

“The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate.”

Homér Iliad

XVI. 630 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

“The fleeting shadows of the dead.”

Homér The Odyssey (Cowper)

X. 521 (tr. G. A. Schomberg).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)