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Iliad

Book 1, Line 390 by Samuel Butler (English)

to Chryse , and sending gifts of sacrifice to the god; but the heralds have just taken from my tent the daughter of Briseus, whom the Achaeans had awarded to myself. Help your brave son, therefore, if you are able. Go to Olympus , and if you have ever

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