Odyssey 8.167–168

Odysseus to Euryalus at the Phaeacian games

οὕτως οὐ πάντεσσι θεοὶ χαρίεντα διδοῦσιν

ἀνδράσιν, οὔτε φυὴν οὔτʼ ἂρ φρένας οὔτʼ ἀγορητύν.

The gods do not give every gracious gift

to every man—not stature, or judgment, or speech in assembly.

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