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“For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.”
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- Source:
- Works and Days. Line 101.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3e497f4067159b31a9ad37784ceb6f1343107a20ca99ee9a2e174c2a07b078c6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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