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Iliad

Book 24, Line 357 by Samuel Butler (English)

When he heard this the old man's heart [ noos ] failed him, and he was in great fear; he stayed where he was as one dazed, and the hair stood on end over his whole body; but the bringer of good luck came up to him and took him by the hand, saying, "Whither, father, are you thus driving your mules and horses in the dead of night when other men are asleep?

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