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Iliad

Book 1, Line 155 by Samuel Butler (English)

nor cut down my harvests on the fertile plains of Phthia ; for between me and them there is a great space, both mountain and sounding sea. We have followed you, Sir Insolence! for your pleasure, not ours - to gain satisfaction [ timê ] from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaos.

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