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

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[692:2] See Cibber, page [296].

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HESIOD.  Circa 720 (?) b. c.

(Translation by J. Banks, M. A., with a few alterations.[692:3])

We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.

The Theogony. Line 27.

On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew,[692:4] and from his lips drop gentle words.

The Theogony. Line 82.

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.[692:5]

The Theogony. Line 754.