“The gods don't hand out all their gifts at once,
not build and brains and flowing speech to all.”

—  Homér , The Odyssey (Cowper)

VIII. 167–168 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)

Original

Οὕτως οὐ πάντεσσι θεοὶ χαρίεντα διδοῦσιν ἀνδράσιν, οὔτε φυὴν οὔτ’ ἂρ φρένας οὔτ’ ἀγορητύν.

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