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Iliad

Book 1, Line 90 by Samuel Butler (English)

no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans." Thereon the seer [ mantis ] spoke boldly. "The god," he said, "is angry neither about vow nor hecatomb, but for his priest's sake, whom Agamemnon has dishonored,

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