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Iliad
Book 4, Line 404 by Samuel Butler (English)
We boast ourselves as even better men than our fathers; we took seven-gated Thebes , though the wall was stronger and our men were fewer in number, for we trusted in the omens of the gods and in the help of Zeus, whereas they perished through their own sheer folly; hold not, then, our fathers in like honor [ timê ] with us."
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