
“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 82.
I. 249 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); of Nestor.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
Τοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ γλώσσης μέλιτος γλυκίων ῥέεν αὐδή.
“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 82.
“Just as the root feeds the tree, so humility feeds the soul. The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and whoever is fed by this sweetness produces fruit.”
Sicut radix portat arborem, sic humilitas animam. Spiritus humilitatis est super mel dulcis, quo qui regitur dulcia poma facit.
Sermon for the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (Part II: De bonae arboris fructificatione et de malae arboris excisione, par. 10)
Sermons
The Sarcastic Fair
“Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.”
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 461)
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)