“There is a time for many words and there is a time also for sleep.”

—  Homér , The Odyssey (Cowper)

XI. 379 (tr. A. T. Murray).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Source: The Odyssey

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Ὥρη μὲν πολέων μύθων, ὥρη δὲ καὶ ὕπνου.

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