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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

8427 Hesiod fl 8th ent? BC John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:8427
AUTHOR:Hesiod (fl. 8th cent.? B.C.)
QUOTATION:On the tongue of such an one they shed a honeyed dew, 1 and from his lips drop gentle words.
ATTRIBUTION:The Theogony. Line 82.
 
Note 1.
See Coleridge, Quotation 34. [back]