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Homer, Odyssey 15.401-2

“In time, a man takes pleasure even in pain, when he has suffered so much and wandered so far.”

 

…μετὰ γάρ τε καὶ ἄλγεσι τέρπεται ἀνήρ,

ὅς τις δὴ μάλα πολλὰ πάθῃ καὶ πόλλ’ ἐπαληθῇ.

 

We posted the first half of Eumaios’ programmatic statement a while back.

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