“But Zeus does not bring to accomplishment all thoughts in men's minds.”
XVIII. 328 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.”
Theogony, line 617
Translations, Works and Days and Theogony (1993)
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