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Odyssey

Book 11, Line 568 by Samuel Butler (English)

"Then I saw Minos son of Zeus with his golden scepter in his hand sitting in judgment on the dead, and the ghosts were gathered sitting and standing round him in the spacious house of Hades, to learn his sentences [ dikai ] upon them.

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