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Iliad

Book 11, Line 804 by Samuel Butler (English)

With these words he moved the heart of Patroklos, who set off running by the line of the ships to Achilles, descendant of Aiakos. When he had got as far as the ships of Odysseus, where was their place of assembly and rendering of judgment [ themis ], with their altars dedicated to the gods, Eurypylos son of Euaemon met him, wounded in the thigh with an arrow, and limping out of the fight. Sweat rained from his head and shoulders, and black blood welled from his cruel wound, but his mind [ noos ] did not wander. The son of Menoitios when he saw him had compassion upon him and spoke piteously saying,

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