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Odyssey
Book 17, Line 431 by Samuel Butler (English)
"But the men insolently disobeyed [ hubris ] my orders, took to their own devices, and ravaged the land of the Egyptians, killing the men, and taking their wives and children captives. The alarm was soon carried to the city, and when they heard the war-cry, the people came out at daybreak till the plain was filled with soldiers horse and foot, and with the gleam of armor. Then Zeus spread panic among my men, and they would no longer face the enemy, for they found themselves surrounded. The Egyptians killed many of us, and took the rest alive to do forced labor for them; as for myself, they gave me to a friend who met them, to take to Cyprus , Dmetor by name, son of Iasos, who was a great man in Cyprus . Thence I am come hither in a state of great misery."
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