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Iliad
Book 2, Line 595 by Samuel Butler (English)
met Thamyris, and stilled his minstrelsy for ever. He was returning from Oechalia , where Eurytos lived and reigned, and boasted that he would surpass even the Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Zeus, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him.
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