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Iliad

Book 11, Line 15 by Samuel Butler (English)

The son of Atreus shouted aloud and bade the Argives gird themselves for battle while he put on his armor. First he girded his goodly greaves about his legs, making them fast with ankle clasps of silver; and about his chest he set the breastplate which Cinyras had once given him as a guest-gift. There had been a report [ kleos ] abroad, reaching as far as Cyprus , that the Achaeans were about to sail for Troy ,

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