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Iliad
Book 4, Line 73 by Samuel Butler (English)
This was what Athena was already eager to do, so down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus . She shot through the sky as some brilliant meteor which the son of scheming Kronos has sent as a sign to mariners or to some great army, and a fiery train of light follows in its wake. The Trojans and Achaeans were struck with awe as they beheld, and one would turn to his neighbor, saying, "Either we shall again have war and din of combat, or Zeus the lord of battle will now make peace between us."
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