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“On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, and from his lips drop gentle words.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Theogony. Line 82.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 389acaa4a26d8293c27f960184d9a0d8a164ca220f74e15d4c96f6dd559867b4
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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