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Iliad

Book 2, Line 580 by Samuel Butler (English)

for he was the greatest king, and had most men under him. And those that dwelt in Lacedaemon , lying low among the hills, Pharis, Sparta , with Messe the haunt of doves; Bryseae , Augeae, Amyclae, and Helos upon the sea;

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