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Iliad

Book 1, Line 265 by Samuel Butler (English)

and Theseus son of Aegeus, peer of the immortals. These were the mightiest men ever born upon this earth: mightiest were they, and when they fought the fiercest tribes of mountain savages they utterly overthrew them. I came from distant Pylos , and went about among them,

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