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Iliad

Book 13, Line 581 by Samuel Butler (English)

On this Menelaos was stung by grief [ akhos ], and made menacingly towards Helenos, brandishing his spear; but Helenos drew his bow, and the two attacked one another at one and the same moment, the one with his spear, and the other with his bow and arrow.

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