Muses' Whisper

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Iliad

Book 2, Line 245 by Samuel Butler (English)

and rebuked him sternly. "Check your glib tongue, Thersites," said be, "and babble not a word further. Chide not with princes when you have none to back you. There is no viler creature come before Troy with the sons of Atreus.

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