Verse

Iliad

Book 24, Line 327 by Samuel Butler (English)

while his friends followed after, wailing and lamenting for him as though he were on his road to death. As soon as they had come down from the city and had reached the plain, his sons and sons-in-law who had followed him went back to Ilion .

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