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“When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, 'such humour as distils from blessed gods.'"”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- b3975ac9ce0fd04ed0b846544c9b9306cfb54c64c7c487a6f4f88f5451163b49
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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