“No more entreating of me, you dog, by knees or parents.”

—  Homér , Iliad

XXII. 345 (tr. R. Lattimore); Achilles to Hector.
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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Μή με κύον γούνων γουνάζεο μὴ δὲ τοκήων.

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