Homer
Homer
Homeris best known as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He was believed by the ancient Greeks to have been the first and greatest of the epic poets. Author of the first known literature of Europe, he is central to the Western canon...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
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And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved.
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Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured.
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The long historian of my country's woes.
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He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
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I long for home, long for the sight of home.
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Long exercised in woes.
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It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
pain men long
For afterwards a man finds pleasure in his pains, when he has suffered long and wandered long. So I will tell you what you ask and seek to know.
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My friend should honor him who honors me.
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There is nothing more admirable than two people who see eye-to-eye keeping house as man and wife, confounding their enemies, and delighting thier friends.
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
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