Verse

Iliad

Book 1, Line 110 by Samuel Butler (English)

that Apollo has plagued us because I would not take a ransom for this girl, the daughter of Chryses. I have set my heart on keeping her in my own house, for I love her better even than my own wife Clytemnestra, whose peer she is alike in

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