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Iliad

Book 1, Line 130 by Samuel Butler (English)

Then Agamemnon said, "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus get the better of me in matters of the mind [ noos ]. You shall not overreach and you shall not persuade me. Are you to keep your own prize, while I sit tamely under my loss and give up the girl at your bidding?

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