Note 18-6 — Eine Studentengeschichte
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woher´ des Landes, woher der Männer? The German translation of the first half of the Greek hexameter: τίς πόθεν εἶς ἀνδρῶν; πόθι τοι πόλις ἠδὲ τοκῆες; so frequently occurring in Homer: „Who art thou? And of what race of men? And where thy home?“—(William Cullen Bryant.)