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Iliad

Book 3, Line 199 by Samuel Butler (English)

And Helen answered, "He is Odysseus, a man of great craft, son of Laertes . He was born in the district [ dêmos ] of rugged Ithaca , and excels in all manner of stratagems and subtle cunning."

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