“For a guest remembers all his days the hospitable man who showed him kindness.”

— Homér , The Odyssey (Cowper)

XV. 54–55 (tr. G. H. Palmer).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

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Τοῦ γάρ τε ξεῖνος μιμνῄσκεται ἤματα πάντα ἀνδρὸς ξεινοδόκου, ὅς κεν φιλότητα παράσχῃ.

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

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