"The gods do not give all men the gift of song."

"Melantho, a female slave in Odysseus' household, is called a 'little dog' by Odysseus."

"Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issu…"

"For the winner a large tripod made to stride a fire / and worth a dozen oxen, so the soldiers reckoned. / For the loser he led a woman through their midst, / worth four, they thought, and skilled in m…"

"A small rock holds back a great wave."