Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 365 |
AUTHOR: | Homer (c. 700 |
QUOTATION: | It is not right to glory in the slain. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Another translation is: “It isn’t right to gloat over the dead.”—Homer’s Odyssey, trans. Denison B. Hull, p. 252 (1978). |
SUBJECTS: | Death |