Note 71 — THE WORKS AND DAYS.
George Chapman translation
Who spurns the suppliant.] The ninth book of the Odyssey exhibits a beautiful passage illustrative of the high reverence in which the Grecians held the duties of hospitality.
Illustrious lord! respect the gods, and us Thy suitors: suppliants are the care of Jove The hospitable: he their wrongs resents, And where the stranger sojourns there is he. Cowper.