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Iliad

Book 21, Line 497 by Samuel Butler (English)

Then the slayer of Argos , guide and guardian, said to Leto, "Leto, I shall not fight you; it is ill to come to blows with any of Zeus' wives. Therefore boast as you will among the immortals that you worsted me in fair fight."

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