Ἀλλ ὅτε δὴ ὄπα τε μεγάλην ἐκ στήθεος εἵη — Homer

"The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1991),"

"The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1997),"

"The Odyssey, trans. Samuel Butler (1898)"

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war."

"Our authors work is a wild paradise, where, if we cannot see all the beauties so distinctly as in an ordered garden, it is only because the number of them is infinitely greater. It is like a copious nursery, which contains the seeds and first productions of every kind, out of which those who followed him have but selected some particular plants, each according to his fancy, to cultivate and beautify. If some things are too luxuriant it is owing to the richness of the soil; and if others are not arrived to perfection or maturity, it is only because they are overrun and oppressed by those of a stronger nature."

"Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus."