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

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The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 18.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,—

Now green in youth, now withering on the ground;[338:1]

Another race the following spring supplies:

They fall successive, and successive rise.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 181.

Inflaming wine, pernicious to mankind.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 330.

If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.

The Iliad of Homer. Book vi. Line 350.