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Iliad

Book 2, Line 210 by Samuel Butler (English)

and all the sea [ pontos ] is in an uproar. The rest now took their seats and kept to their own several places, but Thersites still went on wagging his unbridled tongue - a man of many words, and those unseemly; a monger of sedition, a railer against all who were in authority [ kosmos ], who cared not what he said,

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