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Iliad

Book 1, Line 490 by Samuel Butler (English)

He went not to the honorable assembly, and sallied not forth to fight, but gnawed at his own heart, pining for battle and the war-cry. Now after twelve days the immortal gods came back in a body to Olympus ,

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