“Sweet oblivion, sleep
dissolving all, the good and the bad, once it seals our eyes.”
XX. 85–86 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“An irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest,
soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself…”
XIII. 79–80 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
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