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Iliad

Book 1, Line 60 by Samuel Butler (English)

turn roving home if we would escape destruction, for we are being cut down by war and pestilence at once. Let us ask some priest or seer [ mantis ], or some reader of dreams (for dreams, too, are of Zeus) who can tell us why Phoebus Apollo is so angry, and say

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