![Nay, the greatest wits and poets, too, cease to live;
Homer, their prince, sleeps now in the same forgotten sleep as do the others.
[Lat., Adde repertores doctrinarum atque leporum;
Adde Heliconiadum comites; quorum unus Homerus
Sceptra potitus, eadem aliis sopitu quiete est.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/nay-the-greatest-wits-and-poets-too-cease-to-live-homer-their-prince-sleeps.jpg)
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