Verse
Iliad
Book 5, Line 139 by Samuel Butler (English)
The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but cannot defend his flock, so he takes shelter under cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panic-stricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep-yard wall. Even thus did Diomedes go furiously about among the Trojans.
IliadBook 5, Line 139Samuel ButlerEnglishVerse permalinkRead in Book 5
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