The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to… — Homer
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
In the original Greek
οἶνος γὰρ ἀνώγει ἠλεός, ὅς τ᾽ ἐφέηκε πολύφρονά περ μάλ᾽ ἀεῖσαι καί θ᾽ ἁπαλὸν γελάσαι, καί τ᾽ ὀρχήσασθαι ἀνῆκε, καί τι ἔπος προέηκεν ὅ περ τ᾽ ἄρρητον ἄμεινον.
The Odyssey · 700 BC
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Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 14, l. 463-466.
Original citation
Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 14, l. 463-466.
