Verse
Iliad
Book 18, Line 497 by Samuel Butler (English)
Meanwhile the people were gathered in assembly, for there was a quarrel [ neikos ], and two men were wrangling about the blood-price for a man who had died, the one claiming to the dêmos that he had the right to pay off the damages in full, and the other refusing to accept anything. Each was seeking a limit [ peirar ], in the presence of an arbitrator [ histôr ], and the people took sides, each man backing the side that he had taken;
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