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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.

Approximate author period: c. 720 BC · ancient

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Author or tradition
Hesiod
Attribution: attributed
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Approximate author period: c. 720 BC · ancient
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Work and Days. Line 342.

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