Muses' Whisper

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Iliad

Book 1, Line 50 by Samuel Butler (English)

First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his shafts at the people themselves, and all day long the pyres of the dead were burning. For nine whole days he shot his arrows among the people, but upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly -

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