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Metamorphoses
Book 13, Line 19 by Henry T. Riley (English)
The body of the chiefs is moved, and then , in fact appears what eloquence can do; and the fluent man receives the arms of a brave one. He, who so often has alone withstood both Hector, and the sword, and flames, and Jove himself , cannot now withstand his wrath alone, and grief conquers the man that is invincible. He seizes his sword, and he says:— “This, at least, is my own; or will Ulysses claim this, too, for himself. This must I use against myself; and the blade , which has often been wet with the blood of the Phrygians, will now be wet with the slaughter of its owner: that no one but Ajax himself , may be enabled to conquer Ajax.”
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