Verse
Iliad
Book 11, Line 618 by Samuel Butler (English)
When Nestor and Machaon had reached the tents of the son of Neleus, they dismounted, and an esquire [ therapôn ], Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot. The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts, and when they had so done they came inside and took their seats. Fair Hekamede, whom Nestor had had awarded to him from Tenedos when Achilles took it, mixed them a mess; she was daughter of wise Arsinoos, and the Achaeans had given her to Nestor because he excelled all of them in counsel. First she set for them a fair and well-made table that had feet of lapis lazuli;
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