while sailing over the wine-dark sea to men of
strange
speech
Homer, Odyssey, I, v. 183
HOMER, The Odyssey with an English Translation by
A.T. Murray (Cambridge, MA.-London,1919)
...'It is not for
nothing that I have been a
philologist, perhaps I am a philologist still, that is to say, a
teacher of slow reading: - in the end I also write slowly.' (F. Nietzsche, Daybreak - Thoughts on the prejudices of
morality, Translated by R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge, 1982), p. 5.)