Muses' Whisper

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Iliad

Book 2, Line 770 by Samuel Butler (English)

and he had also better horses; but Achilles was now holding aloof at his ships by reason of his quarrel with Agamemnon, and his people passed their time upon the sea shore, throwing discs or aiming with spears at a mark,

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