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Iliad

Book 2, Line 810 by Samuel Butler (English)

horse and foot, with the tramp as of a great multitude. Now there is a high mound before the city, rising by itself upon the plain. Men call it Batieia, but the gods know that it is the tomb [ sêma ] of lithe Myrrhine.

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