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Iliad

Book 24, Line 405 by Samuel Butler (English)

Then answered Priam, "If you are indeed the squire [ therapôn ] of Achilles son of Peleus, tell me now the Whole truth. Is my son still at the ships, or has Achilles hewn him limb from limb, and given him to his hounds?"

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