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Iliad

Book 2, Line 1 by Samuel Butler (English)

Now the other gods and the armed warriors on the plain slept soundly, but Zeus was wakeful, for he was thinking how to do honor to Achilles, and destroy many people at the ships of the Achaeans.

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