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Iliad

Book 2, Line 600 by Samuel Butler (English)

They robbed him of his divine power of song, and thenceforth he could strike the lyre no more. These were commanded by Nestor, horseman of Gerene, and with him there came ninety ships. And those that held Arcadia , under the high mountain of Cyllene, near the tomb of Aipytos, where the people fight hand to hand;

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