Verse
Iliad
Book 2, Line 545 by Samuel Butler (English)
Of these there came fifty ships. And they that held the strong city of Athens , the dêmos of great Erechtheus, who was born of the soil itself, but Zeus' daughter, Athena, fostered him, and established him at Athens in her own rich sanctuary. There, year by year, the Athenian youths worship him
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