“Then looking at him darkly resourceful Odysseus spoke to him:
"What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?"”

—  Homér , Iliad

IV. 350–351 (tr. R. Lattimore).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)

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Τὸν δ' ἄρ' ὑπόδρα ἰδὼν προσέφη πολύμητις Ὀδυσσεύς· Ἀτρεΐδη ποῖόν σε ἔπος φύγεν ἕρκος ὀδόντων.

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