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Iliad

Book 2, Line 155 by Samuel Butler (English)

Then surely the Argives would have had a return [ nostos ] after a fashion that was not fated. But Hera said to Athena, "Alas, daughter of aegis-bearing Zeus, unweariable, shall the Argives flee home to their own land over the broad sea,

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