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Iliad

Book 1, Line 200 by Samuel Butler (English)

from heaven (for Hera had sent her in the love she bore to them both), and seized the son of Peleus by his yellow hair, visible to him alone, for of the others no man could see her. Achilles turned in amaze, and by the fire that flashed from her eyes at once knew that she was Athena. "Why are you here," said he, "daughter of aegis-bearing Zeus? To see the pride [ hubris ] of Agamemnon, son of Atreus? Let me tell you - and it shall surely be -

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