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Iliad

Book 2, Line 610 by Samuel Butler (English)

and they had sixty ships. Many Arcadians, good warriors, came in each one of them, but Agamemnon found them the ships in which to cross the sea [ pontos ], for they were not a people that occupied their business upon the waters.

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