Verse

Iliad

Book 24, Line 26 by Samuel Butler (English)

who persisted in the hate which they had ever borne towards Ilion with Priam and his people; for they forgave not the wrong [ atê ] done them by Alexander in disdaining the goddesses who came to him when he was in his sheepyards, and preferring her who had offered him a wanton to his ruin.

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