Verse
Iliad
Book 2, Line 470 by Samuel Butler (English)
buzz around a herdsman's homestead in the season [ hôra ] of spring when the pails are drenched with milk, even so did the Achaeans swarm on to the plain to charge the Trojans and destroy them. The chiefs disposed their men this way and that before the fight began, drafting them out
IliadBook 2, Line 470Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 2
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