Verse
Iliad
Book 1, Line 235 by Samuel Butler (English)
nor bud anew from the day on which it left its parent stem upon the mountains - for the axe stripped it of leaf and bark, and now the sons of the Achaeans bear it as judges and guardians of the decrees [ themistes ] of heaven - so surely and solemnly do I swear
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