Muses' Whisper

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Odyssey

Book 19, Line 582 by Samuel Butler (English)

Then Odysseus answered, "my lady wife of Odysseus, you need not defer your tournament [ athlos ], for Odysseus will return ere ever they can string the bow, handle it how they will, and send their arrows through the iron."

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