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Iliad
Book 10, Line 503 by Samuel Butler (English)
But Diomedes stayed where he was, thinking what other daring deed he might accomplish. He was doubting whether to take the chariot in which the king's armor was lying, and draw it out by the pole, or to lift the armor out and carry it off; or whether again, he should not kill some more Thracians. While he was thus hesitating Athena came up to him and said, "Make your homecoming [ nostos ], Diomedes, to the ships or you may be driven thither, should some other god rouse the Trojans."
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