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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 365
AUTHOR: Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
QUOTATION: It is not right to glory in the slain.
ATTRIBUTION: HOMER, The Odyssey of Homer, trans. George H. Palmer, book 22, line 412, p. 288 (1929).

Another translation is: “It isn’t right to gloat over the dead.”—Homer’s Odyssey, trans. Denison B. Hull, p. 252 (1978).
SUBJECTS: Death
 


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