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  • After these Menelaus, of the fair hair, the son of Atreus, went forth bearing in his right hand a golden cup of honey-hearted wine, that they might pour a drink-offering ere they departed.

    Book XV Homer 1909

  • So spake he, and Pontonous mixed the honey-hearted wine, and served it out to all, when he had poured for libation into each cup in turn.

    Book VII Homer 1909

  • So spake he, and Pontonous mixed the honey-hearted wine, and served it to all in turn.

    Book XIII Homer 1909

  • And a third mixed sweet honey-hearted wine in a silver bowl, and set out cups of gold.

    Book X Homer 1909

  • And from the city bring kine and goodly sheep with speed; and provide you with honey-hearted wine, and corn from your houses, and gather much wood withal, that all night long until early-springing dawn we may burn many fires, and the gleam may reach to heaven; lest perchance even by night the flowing-haired Achaians strive to take flight over the broad back of the sea.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Podargos, and Aithon and goodly Lampos, now pay me back your tending, even the abundance that Andromache, great-hearted Eetion's daughter, set before you of honey-hearted wheat, and mingled wine to drink at the heart's bidding.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • And they loosed their sweating steeds from the yoke, and tethered them with thongs, each man beside his chariot; and from the city they brought kine and goodly sheep with speed, and provided them with honey-hearted wine and corn from their houses, and gathered much wood withal.

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

  • Let him compare our matchless, rosy-lipped, honey-hearted trailing arbutus with his own ugly ground-ivy; let him compare our sumptuous, fragrant pond-lily with his own odorless NYMPHÆ ALBA.

    The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879

  • And a third mixed sweet honey-hearted wine in a silver bowl, and set out cups of gold.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

  • So spake he, and Pontonous mixed the honey-hearted wine, and served it out to all, when he had poured for libation into each cup in turn.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1878

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