Verse
Iliad
Book 1, Line 350 by Samuel Butler (English)
by the side of the hoar sea [ pontos ], weeping and looking out upon the boundless waste of waters. He raised his hands in prayer to his immortal mother, "Mother," he cried, "you bore me doomed to live but for a brief season; surely Zeus, who thunders from Olympus , might have given honor [ timê ] in return. It is not so.
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