Verse
Iliad
Book 2, Line 465 by Samuel Butler (English)
on to the plain of the Skamandros, and the ground rang as brass under the feet of men and horses. They stood as thick upon the flower-bespangled field as leaves that bloom in season [ hôra ]. As countless swarms of flies
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