Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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When Priam's powers and Priam's self shall fall,

And one prodigious ruin swallow all.

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 196.

First in the fight and every graceful deed.

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 295.

The first in banquets, but the last in fight.

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 401.

Gods! How the son degenerates from the sire!

The Iliad of Homer. Book iv. Line 451.

With all its beauteous honours on its head.