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Quotation from The Iliad by Homer
“Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees”
The Iliad, Book 6.146, trans. Samuel Butler (1898)
Glaucus, asked his lineage by Diomedes on the battlefield, reflects on the transience of human generations.
Citation: "Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees" — Homer, The Iliad, Book 6.146, trans. Samuel Butler (1898). (id the-iliad-q2)
