Whosoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen. — Homer
Whosoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
In the original Greek
ὅς κε θεοῖς ἐπιπείθηται μάλα τ᾽ ἔκλυον αὐτοῦ.
The Iliad · 700 BC
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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 1, l. 218.
Original citation
Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 1, l. 218.