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Works and Days

Book 1, Line 62 by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (English)

(ll. 724-726) Never pour a libation of sparkling wine to Zeus after dawn with unwashen hands, nor to others of the deathless gods; else they do not hear your prayers but spit them back.

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