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Iliad

Book 2, Line 485 by Samuel Butler (English)

for you are goddesses and are in all places so that you see all things, while we know nothing but by report [ kleos ] - who were the chiefs and princes of the Danaans? As for the common warriors, they were so that I could not name every single one of them though I had ten tongues,

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