"Odysseus grabbed her throat with his right hand and told her he 'will not spare [her] when [he] kill[s] the rest, / the other slave women, although [she was] / [his] nurse'."

"The wine is good, if you know how to drink it."

"Strange to behold, what blame these mortals can bring against godhead! For their ills, they assert, are from us, when they themselves by their mad recklessness have pain far past what is fated."

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"Beauty, terrible beauty! A deathless goddess — so she strikes our eyes!"