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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 3547 |
| AUTHOR: | Alexander Pope (1688–1744) |
| QUOTATION: | For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace. Satire ii. Book ii. Line 159. |
| Note 1. This line is repeated in the translation of the Odyssey, book xv. line 83, with “parting” instead of “going.” [back] |
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