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Iliad

Book 2, Line 195 by Samuel Butler (English)

see to it lest he be angry and do us a mischief; for the timê of kings is great, and the hand of Zeus is with them." But when he came across some man from some locale [ dêmos ] who was making a noise, he struck him with his staff and rebuked him, saying,

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