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Odyssey
Book 4, Line 481 by Samuel Butler (English)
"I was broken-hearted when I heard that I must go back all that long and terrible voyage to Egypt ; nevertheless, I answered, ‘I will do all, old man, that you have laid upon me; but now tell me, and tell me true, whether all the Achaeans whom Nestor and I left behind us when we set sail from Troy have got home safely, or whether any one of them came to a bad end either on board his own ship or among his friends when the days of his fighting were done.’
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