“From whose lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey.”

—  Homér , Iliad

I. 249 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); of Nestor.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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Τοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή.

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

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