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Iliad

Book 2, Line 575 by Samuel Butler (English)

and all the coast-land round about Helike ; these sent a hundred ships under the command of King Agamemnon, son of Atreus. His force was far both finest and most numerous, and in their midst was the king himself, all glorious in his armor of gleaming bronze - foremost among the heroes,

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