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Iliad

Book 1, Line 105 by Samuel Butler (English)

as he scowled on Kalkhas and said, "Seer [ mantis ] of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil. You have brought me neither comfort nor performance; and now you come seeing among Danaans, and saying

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