Verse
Iliad
Book 2, Line 325 by Samuel Butler (English)
long in coming, and long ere it be fulfilled, though its fame [ kleos ] shall last for ever. As the serpent ate the eight fledglings and the sparrow that hatched them, which makes nine, so shall we fight nine years at Troy , but in the tenth shall take the town.’
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