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Examples
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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
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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
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So spake he, and Pontonous mixed the honey-hearted wine, and served it to all in turn.
Book XIII Homer 1909
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And a third mixed sweet honey-hearted wine in a silver bowl, and set out cups of gold.
Book X Homer 1909
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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