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Iliad

Book 2, Line 715 by Samuel Butler (English)

whom Alcestis bore to him, loveliest of the daughters of Pelias. And those that held Methone and Thaumacia, with Meliboia and rugged Olizon , these were led by the skillful archer Philoctetes, and they had seven ships, each with fifty oarsmen

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