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 xix. Line 303.

Accept these grateful tears! for thee they flow,—

For thee, that ever felt another's woe!

The Iliad of Homer. Book xix. Line 319.

Where'er he mov'd, the goddess shone before.

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 127.

The matchless Ganymed, divinely fair.[340:2]

The Iliad of Homer. Book xx. Line 278.

'T is fortune gives us birth,

But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.