Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear.
“I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.”
“He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.”