“From whose lips the streams of words ran sweeter than honey.”
I. 249 (tr. Richmond Lattimore); of Nestor.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”
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Hesiod
Source: The Theogony (c. 700 BC), line 82.
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