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Iliad

Book 2, Line 480 by Samuel Butler (English)

As some great bull that lords it over the herds upon the plain, even so did Zeus make the son of Atreus stand peerless among the multitude of heroes. And now, O Muses, dwellers in the mansions of Olympus , tell me -

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