Verse
Iliad
Book 13, Line 240 by Samuel Butler (English)
Therewith the god went back into the thick of the fight [ ponos ], and Idomeneus when he had reached his tent donned his armor, grasped his two spears, and sallied forth. As the lightning which the son of Kronos brandishes from bright Olympus when he would show a sign [ sêma ] to mortals, and its gleam flashes far and wide -
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