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Iliad
Book 10, Line 412 by Samuel Butler (English)
And Dolon answered, "I will tell you truly all. Hektor and the other councilors are now holding conference by the monument [ sêma ] of great Ilos, away from the general tumult; as for the guards about which you ask me, there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host. The Trojans have their watchfires, for they are bound to have them; they, therefore, are awake and keep each other to their duty as sentinels; but the allies who have come from other places are asleep and leave it to the Trojans to keep guard, for their wives and children are not here."
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