“For a man will not have strength to fight his way forward all day
long until the sun goes down if he is starved for food.”

—  Homér , Iliad

XIX. 162–163 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀνὴρ πρόπαν ἦμαρ ἐς ἠέλιον καταδύντα ἄκμηνος σίτοιο δυνήσεται ἄντα μάχεσθαι.

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Ancient Greek epic poet, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

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