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Iliad

Book 1, Line 320 by Samuel Butler (English)

and called his trusty messengers and squires [ therapontes ] Talthybios and Eurybates. "Go," said he, "to the tent of Achilles, son of Peleus; take Briseis by the hand and bring her hither; if he will not give her I shall come

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