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  Speaker 1: Book twelve, Part two of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Michael Wolfe. Metamorphoses by Publius Ovidius Nassau, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Brooks Moore, Book twelve, Part two. The daughter of
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  Speaker 1: Eleatus Keyenus was remarkable for charm, most beautiful of all
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  Speaker 1: the Salian maidens. Many sighed for her in Vain, through
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  Speaker 1: all the neighboring towns and your's Achilles, for that was
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  Speaker 1: our home. But Pelius did not try to win her love,
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  Speaker 1: for he was either married at that time to your
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  Speaker 1: dear mother or was pledged to her. Keynus never became
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  Speaker 1: the willing bride of any suitor, but report declares, while
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  Speaker 1: she was walking on a lonely shore, the god of
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  Speaker 1: ocean saw and ravished her, and in the joy of
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  Speaker 1: that love, Neptune said, request of me, whatever you desire,
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  Speaker 1: and nothing shall deny your dearest wish. The story tells
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  Speaker 1: us that he made this pledge, and Kenas said to Neptune,
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  Speaker 1: the great wrong which I have suffered from you justifies
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  Speaker 1: the wonderful request that I must make. I ask that
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  Speaker 1: I may never suffer such an injury again. Grant I
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  Speaker 1: may be no longer woman. I'll ask no more. While
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  Speaker 1: she was speaking to him, the last words of her
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  Speaker 1: strange prayer were uttered in so deep, in such a
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  Speaker 1: manly tone, it seemed indeed they must be from a man.
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  Speaker 1: That was a fact. Neptune not only had allowed her prayer,
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  Speaker 1: but made the new man proof against all wounds of
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  Speaker 1: spear or sword. Rejoicing in the gift, he went his
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  Speaker 1: way as keen as a Tracides spent years in every
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  Speaker 1: manful exercise, and roamed the plains of northern Thessaly, the
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  Speaker 1: son of bald Ixian Pyrathus. Wedding Hippodame had asked us guests,
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  Speaker 1: the cloud born centaurs, to recline around the ordered tables
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  Speaker 1: in a cool cave set under some trees. The Salian
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  Speaker 1: chiefs were there, and I myself was with them. There.
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  Speaker 1: The festal place resounded with the rout and noisy clamor
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  Speaker 1: singing nuptial verse, and in the great room filled with
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  Speaker 1: smoking fire, the maiden came escorted by a crowd of
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  Speaker 1: matrons and young married women. She most beautiful of all
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  Speaker 1: that lovely throng. And so Pyrathus, the fortunate son of Baldyxian,
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  Speaker 1: was so praised by all for his pure joy and
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  Speaker 1: lovely wife, it seemed as very blessings must have led
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  Speaker 1: to fatal harm. For savage Eurytus, wildest of the wild centaurs,
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  Speaker 1: now inflamed with sudden envy, drunkenness and lust, upset the
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  Speaker 1: tables and made havoc there so dreadful that the banquet
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  Speaker 1: suddenly was changed from love to uproar. Seized by the hair,
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  Speaker 1: the bride was violently dragged away. When Eurytus caught up Hippodame,
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  Speaker 1: each one of all the centaurs took at will the
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  Speaker 1: maid or matron that he longed foremost. The palace, seeming
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  Speaker 1: like a captured town, resounded with a fright shrieks of women.
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  Speaker 1: At once. We all sprang up, and theseus cried, what
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  Speaker 1: madness Eurytus has driven you to this vile wickedness? While
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  Speaker 1: I have life? You dare attack Pirithus? You know not
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  Speaker 1: what you do for one wrong injures both. The valiant
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  Speaker 1: hero did not merely talk. He pushed them off as
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  Speaker 1: they were pressing on, and rescued her whom Eurytus had seized.
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  Speaker 1: Since Eurytus could not defend such deeds with words, he
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  Speaker 1: turned and beat with violent hands the face of him
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  Speaker 1: who save the bride, and struck his generous breast. By chance,
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  Speaker 1: an ancient ball was near at hand. This rough with
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  Speaker 1: figures carved the son of Egeus court and hurled it
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  Speaker 1: full in that vile centaur's face. He spouting out thick
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  Speaker 1: gouts of blood and bleeding from his wounds. His brains
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  Speaker 1: and wine mixed, kicked the blood soaked sand. His double
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  Speaker 1: membered sentaur brothers wild with passion at his death, all
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  Speaker 1: shouted out to arms, to arms. Their courage raised by
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  Speaker 1: wine in their first onset hurled, cups, flew about, and
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  Speaker 1: shattered wine casks, hollow basins, things before adapted to a banquet,
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  Speaker 1: now for death and carnage. In the furious fight, Emicha's
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  Speaker 1: first opinions son began to spoil the inner sanctuary of
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  Speaker 1: its gifts. He snatched up from that shrine a chandelier
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  Speaker 1: adorned with glittering lamps, and lifted high with all the
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  Speaker 1: force of one who strives to break the ball's white
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  Speaker 1: neck with sacrificial axe. He dashed it at the head
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  Speaker 1: of Celadon, one of the Lepithie, and crushed his skull
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  Speaker 1: into the features of his face. His eyes leaped from
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  Speaker 1: his sockets, and the shattered bones of his smashed face
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  Speaker 1: gave way, so that his nose was driven back and
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  Speaker 1: fastened in his throat. But Belatas of Pella tore away
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  Speaker 1: a table leg of maplewood and felled Amaricus to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: his sunken chin cast down upon his breast, and as
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  Speaker 1: he spat his teeth out mixed with blood, a second
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  Speaker 1: blow despatched him to the shades of Tartarus. Grynaeus, seeing
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  Speaker 1: a smoking altar, cried, good use for this, with which
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  Speaker 1: words he raised up that heavy, blazing altar, hurling it
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  Speaker 1: into the middle of the Lepithae. He struck down Brotias
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  Speaker 1: and Orius Macalay, mother of that Arias, was famous for
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  Speaker 1: her incantations, which she had often used to conjure down
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  Speaker 1: the shining twin horns of the unwilling moon. Exadius threatened,
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  Speaker 1: you shall not escape, let me, but have a weapon,
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  Speaker 1: and with that he whirled the antlers of a vote
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  Speaker 1: of stag, which he found there hung on a tall
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  Speaker 1: pine tree. And with that double branching horn he pierced
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of Grinius, and he gouged them out. One
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  Speaker 1: eye stuck to the horn, the other rolled down on
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  Speaker 1: his beard, to which it strictly clung in dreadful clot
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  Speaker 1: of gore. Then Ritus snatched a blazing brand of plumwood
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  Speaker 1: from an altar, and, whirling it upon the right, smashed
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  Speaker 1: through the temples of Carraxus, wonderful with golden hair seized
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  Speaker 1: by the violent flames, His yellow locks burned fiercely as
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  Speaker 1: a field of autumn grain, and even the scorching blood
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  Speaker 1: gave from the sore wound a terrific noise, as a
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  Speaker 1: red hot iron and pincers, which the smith lifts out
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  Speaker 1: and plunges in the tepid pool, hissing and sizzling. Caraxus
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  Speaker 1: shook the fire from his burnt locks, and heaved up
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  Speaker 1: on his shoulders a large threshold stone torn from the ground,
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  Speaker 1: a weight sufficient for a team of oxen. The vast
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  Speaker 1: weight impeded him so that it could not even touch
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  Speaker 1: his foe, and yet the massive stone did hit his
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  Speaker 1: friend Cametes who was standing near to him, and crushed
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  Speaker 1: him down. Then Ritus, crazed with joy, exulting, yelled, I
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  Speaker 1: pray that all of you may be so strong. Wielding
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  Speaker 1: his half burned stake with heavy blows, again and again
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  Speaker 1: he broke the sutures of his enemy's skull until the
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  Speaker 1: bones were mingled with his oozing brains. Victorious then rushed
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  Speaker 1: he upon a vagras and carythas and dryass. First of
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  Speaker 1: these was youthful Corethus, whose cheeks were then just covered
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  Speaker 1: with soft down. When he fell dead, Evagrius cried, what
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  Speaker 1: glory do you get killing a boy? But Ritus did
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  Speaker 1: not give him time for uttering one word. More. He
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  Speaker 1: pushed the red hot steak into the foeman's mouth while
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  Speaker 1: he still spoke, and down into his lungs. He then
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  Speaker 1: pursued the savage dryass, while whirling the red fire fast
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  Speaker 1: about his head, but not with like success, for while
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  Speaker 1: he still rejoiced in killings, Dryas turned and pierced him
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  Speaker 1: with a stake where neck and shoulder meet. Ritus groaned
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  Speaker 1: and with a great effort, pulled the stake out from
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  Speaker 1: the bone, then fled away, drenched in his blood. An
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  Speaker 1: Orneus followed him. Lecabus fled, and Medan with a wound
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  Speaker 1: in his right shoulder. Thormasen Pisanore and Murmurers fled with them. Murmurus,
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  Speaker 1: who used to excel all others in a race, ran
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  Speaker 1: slowly crippled by a recent wound. Pholus and Melanius ran
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  Speaker 1: for their lives, and with them Abas, hunter of wild boars,
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  Speaker 1: and Asbolus the Auga, who in vain had urged his
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  Speaker 1: friends to shun that hapless fight. As Nessus joined the rout,
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  Speaker 1: he said to him, you need not flee, for you
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  Speaker 1: shall be reserved a victim for the bow of Hercules.
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  Speaker 1: But neither Lycidus, Eurynimus, nor Eureus nor Imbrius had escaped
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  Speaker 1: from death. For all of these, the strong right hand
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  Speaker 1: of Dryas pierced as they confronted him. Crynaeus there received
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  Speaker 1: a wound in front. Although he turned in flight. As
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  Speaker 1: he looked back, a heavy javeler between his eyes pierced
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  Speaker 1: through him, where his nose and forehead joined. In all
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  Speaker 1: this uproar, Aphodas lay flat in endless slumber from the
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  Speaker 1: wine he drank incessant, and his nerveless hands still held
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  Speaker 1: the cup of mixed wine as he lay full stretched
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  Speaker 1: upon a shaggy bear skin from Mount Ossa. When Pabus
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  Speaker 1: saw him harmless in that sleep, he laid his fingers
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  Speaker 1: in his javelin's thong and shouted, loudly, mix your wine
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  Speaker 1: down there with waters of the sticks, and stopping talk,
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  Speaker 1: let fly his javelin at the sleeping youth. The ashen shaft,
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  Speaker 1: iron tipped, was driven through his neck exposed as he
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  Speaker 1: by chance lay there, his head thrown back, he did
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  Speaker 1: not even feel a touch of death, and from his
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  Speaker 1: deep pier's throat, his crimson blood flowed out upon the
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  Speaker 1: couch and in the wine bowls still grasped in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Betrayus when he strove to tear up from
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  Speaker 1: the earth an ache and bearing oak. And while he
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  Speaker 1: struggled with it back and forth, and was just ready
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  Speaker 1: to wrench up the trunk, Pirathus hurled a well aimed
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  Speaker 1: spear at him, transfixed his ribs, and pinned his body
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  Speaker 1: tight writhing to that hard oak. And Lycus fell and
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  Speaker 1: Chromus fell before Pirethus they gave less glory to the
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  Speaker 1: conqueror than Helops or than Dictus. Helops was killed by
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  Speaker 1: a javelin which pierced his temples from the right side
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  Speaker 1: clear through to his left ear, and Dictus. Running in
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  Speaker 1: a desperate haste, hoping in vain to escape, Ixian's son
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  Speaker 1: slipped on the steep edge of a precipice, and as
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  Speaker 1: he fell down headlong, crashed into the top of a
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  Speaker 1: huge ash tree, which impaled his dying body on its
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  Speaker 1: broken spikes. Alphareus, eager to avenge him, tried to lift
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  Speaker 1: a rock from that steep mountain side, but as he heaved,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Aegeus struck him squarely with an oaken
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  Speaker 1: club and smashed and broke the huge bones of that
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  Speaker 1: centaur's arm. He has no time and does not want
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  Speaker 1: to give that useless foe to death. He leaps upon
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  Speaker 1: the back of tall bayron Ore, never trained to carry riders,
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  Speaker 1: and he fixed his knees firm in the centaur's ribs,
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  Speaker 1: and holding tight to the long hair seized by his
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  Speaker 1: left hand, struck and shat at the hard features and
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  Speaker 1: fierce face and bony temples with his club of gnarled
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  Speaker 1: strong oak, and with it he struck to the ground
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  Speaker 1: near dimness and Lycopi's dart expert and hip Passus, whose
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  Speaker 1: beard hid all his breast, and Rhepheus, taller than the
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  Speaker 1: highest trees, and Thrias, who would carry home alive the
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  Speaker 1: raging bears caught and Thessalian hills. De Milan could no
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  Speaker 1: longer stand and look on Theseus and his unrestrained success.
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  Speaker 1: He struggled with vast effort to tear up an old pine,
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  Speaker 1: trunken all with its long roots, and failing shortly in
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  Speaker 1: that first attempt, he broke it off and hurled at
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  Speaker 1: this foe. But theseus saw the pine tree in its flight,
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  Speaker 1: and warned by Pallas, got beyond its range. His boast
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  Speaker 1: was Pallas had directed him, and yet the missile was
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  Speaker 1: not launched in vain It sheer the left shoulder and
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  Speaker 1: the breast from tall crantaor he Achilles, was your father's
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  Speaker 1: armor bearer, and was given by King Amantor when he
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  Speaker 1: sued for peace. When Peleus, at a distance saw him
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  Speaker 1: torn and mangled, he exclaimed, at least receive this sacrifice,
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  Speaker 1: O Crantor, most beloved, dearest of young men. And with
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  Speaker 1: sturdy arm and all his strength of soul as well,
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  Speaker 1: he hurled as ashen lance against Demoleon, which piercing through
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  Speaker 1: his shivered ribs hung there and quivered in the bones.
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  Speaker 1: The centaur wrenched the wooden shaft out with his frenzied hands,
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  Speaker 1: but could not move the pointed head, which stuck within
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  Speaker 1: his lungs. His very anguish gave him such a desperation
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  Speaker 1: that he rose against his foe and trampled and beat
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  Speaker 1: down the hero with his hoofs. Pelius allowed the blows
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  Speaker 1: to fall on helm and ringing shield protected, so he
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  Speaker 1: watched his time and thrust up through the centaur's shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: By one stroke, he pierced two breasts where horse and
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  Speaker 1: man form met. Before this, Peleius, with the spear, killed
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  Speaker 1: both Miles and Phlegraeus, and with the sword Iphinus and Clanus.
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  Speaker 1: Now he killed Dorilas, who was clad in a wolf
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  Speaker 1: skin cap, and fought with curving bulls horns dripping blood.
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  Speaker 1: To him, I said, for courage, gave me strength your horns,
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  Speaker 1: how much inferior to my steel, and through my spear.
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  Speaker 1: Since he could not avoid the gleaming point, he held
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  Speaker 1: up his right hand to shield his forehead from the
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  Speaker 1: threatened wound. Whose hand was pierced and pinned against his forehead,
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  Speaker 1: he shouted madly Pelius near him, while he stood there,
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  Speaker 1: pinned and helpless with his wound, struck him with sharp sword,
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  Speaker 1: and the belly deep. He leaped forth fiercely as he
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  Speaker 1: trailed his bows upon the ground, with his entangled legs
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  Speaker 1: treading upon them, bursting them. He fell with empty belly,
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  Speaker 1: lifeless to the earth, Calarus, Beauty did not save your life.
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  Speaker 1: If beauty is in any of your tribe, Your golden
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  Speaker 1: beard was in its early growth, Your golden hair came
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  Speaker 1: flowing to your shoulders, and your bright face. There was
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  Speaker 1: a pleasing glance the neck and shoulders, in the hands
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  Speaker 1: and breast, and every aspect of his human form resembled
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  Speaker 1: those atmirred statues, which are gifted artist's carve. Even the
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  Speaker 1: shape of the fine horse beneath the human form was
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  Speaker 1: perfect too. Gave him the head and neck of a
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  Speaker 1: full blooded horse, and he would seem a steed for castor,
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  Speaker 1: for his back was shaped so comfortable to be sat upon,
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  Speaker 1: and muscles swelled upon his arching chest. His lustrous body
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  Speaker 1: was as black as pitch, yet his legs and flowing
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  Speaker 1: tail were white as snow. Many a female of his
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  Speaker 1: kind loved him, but only Hellnemi gained as love. There
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  Speaker 1: was no other centaur made so beautiful as she within
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  Speaker 1: the wounds by coaxing ways. She had won Solaris by
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  Speaker 1: loving and confessing love by daintiness, so far as that
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  Speaker 1: was possible in one of such a form. She held
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  Speaker 1: his love. For Now she smoothed her long locks with
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  Speaker 1: a comb. And now she decked herself with rosemary, and
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  Speaker 1: now with violets, or with roses in her hair. And
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  Speaker 1: sometimes she wore lilies white as snow. And twice each
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  Speaker 1: day she bathed her lovely face and the sweet stream
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  Speaker 1: that falls down from the height of wooded pegassa. And
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  Speaker 1: daily twice she dipped her body in the stream. She
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  Speaker 1: wore upon her shoulders and left side, a skin greatly
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  Speaker 1: becoming of selected worth. Their love was equal, and together
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  Speaker 1: they would wander over mountain sides and rest together in
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  Speaker 1: cool caves. And so it was they went together to
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  Speaker 1: that pallace cave known to the Lipithie. Together they fought
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  Speaker 1: fiercely in this battle, side by side. Thrown by an
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  Speaker 1: unknown hand, a javelin pierced Solaris just below the fatal
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  Speaker 1: spot where the chest rises to the neck. His heart,
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  Speaker 1: though only slightly wounded grew quite cold, and his whole
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  Speaker 1: body felt cold afterwards. As quickly as the weapon was
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  Speaker 1: drawn out. Then Halonami held in her embrace the dying body,
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  Speaker 1: fondled the dread wound, and fixing her lips closely to
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  Speaker 1: the lips endeavor to hold back his dying breath. But
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  Speaker 1: soon she saw that he indeed was dead. With mourning
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  Speaker 1: words which clamor of the fight prevented me from hearing,
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  Speaker 1: she threw herself on the spear that pierced her solaris,
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  Speaker 1: and fell upon his breast, embracing him in death. Another
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  Speaker 1: sight still comes before my eyes. The scentaur Feochomis with
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  Speaker 1: his log he wore six line skins well wrapped round
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  Speaker 1: his body, and with fixed connecting knots they covered him
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  Speaker 1: both horse and man. He hurled a trunk two yokes
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  Speaker 1: of oxen scarce could move, and struck the hapless sun
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  Speaker 1: of Olenus a crushing blow upon the head. The broad
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  Speaker 1: round dome was shattered, and his dying brains oozed out
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  Speaker 1: through the hollow nostrils, mouth and ears, as curdled milk
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  Speaker 1: seeps down through oaken twigs or other liquors crushed out
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  Speaker 1: under weights flow through a well pierced sieve, and thick
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  Speaker 1: squeeze out through numerous holes. As he began to spoil
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  Speaker 1: his victim. And your father can affirm the truth of this,
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  Speaker 1: I thrust my sword deep in the wretch's groin. Cathonius too,
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  Speaker 1: and Tilobous fell thereby my sword. The former ran a
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  Speaker 1: two pronged stick as his sole weapon, and the other
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  Speaker 1: had a spear with which he wounded me. You see
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  Speaker 1: the scar, the old scar, still as surely visible. Those
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  Speaker 1: were my days of youth and strength. And then I
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  Speaker 1: ought to have ward against the citadel of Pergamer. I
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  Speaker 1: could have checked or even vanquished the arms of Hector,
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  Speaker 1: but alas Hector had not been born, or was perhaps
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  Speaker 1: a boy old age, as dulled my youthful strength. What
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  Speaker 1: use is it to speak of Periphas, who overcame Parratus
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  Speaker 1: double formed white, Tell of Ampis, who, with pointless shaft
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  Speaker 1: victorious thrust a chickless through the face Mecarius, hurling a
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  Speaker 1: heavy crowbar pierced Erygnopus and laid him low. A hunting
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  Speaker 1: spear that Nessus strongly hurled was buried in the groin
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  Speaker 1: of Simelus. Do not believe that Mopsus, son of Ampicus,
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  Speaker 1: was merely a profit of events to come. He slew
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  Speaker 1: a daring two formed monster. There, howdities tried in vain
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  Speaker 1: to speak before his death, but could not, for his
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  Speaker 1: tongue was nailed against his chin, his chin against his throat.
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  Speaker 1: Five of the centaurs Caneus, but to death Stiphelus, Bromus,
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  Speaker 1: and Antimachus, Allmus and Pyracmos with his axe. I have
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  Speaker 1: forgot their wounds, but noted well their names and number.
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  Speaker 1: Latrius huge of Limb, had killed and stripped Emathian Hallsus.
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  Speaker 1: Now in his armor he came rushing out in years.
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  Speaker 1: He was between old age and youth, but he retained
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  Speaker 1: the vigor of his youth. His temples showed, his hair
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  Speaker 1: was mixed with gray, conspicuous for his Macedonian lance and
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  Speaker 1: sword and shield. Facing both sides each way, he insolently
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  Speaker 1: clashed his arms, and while he rode, poured out these
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  Speaker 1: words in empty air. Shall I put up with one
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  Speaker 1: like you, o Keeneus, For you are still a woman
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  Speaker 1: in my sight? Have you forgot your birth or that
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  Speaker 1: disgrace by which you won reward? At what a price
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  Speaker 1: you got? The false resemblance to a man, consider both
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  Speaker 1: your birth and what you have submitted to take up
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  Speaker 1: a distaff and wool basket. Twist your threads with practiced thumb.
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  Speaker 1: Leave warfare to your men. While puffed up pride was
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  Speaker 1: vaunting out such nonsense, Caenius hurled a spear and pierced
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  Speaker 1: the stretched out running side just where the man was
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  Speaker 1: joined upon the horse. The centaur Latrius raved with pain
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  Speaker 1: and struck with his great pike the face of Keenius.
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  Speaker 1: His pike rebounded as the hail that slants up from
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  Speaker 1: the roof, whereas a pebble might rebound from hollow drum.
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  Speaker 1: Then coming near, he tried to drive a sword into
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  Speaker 1: the hard side of Keenius, but it could not make
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  Speaker 1: a wound. Aha, he cried, this will not get you off.
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  Speaker 1: The good edge of my sword will take your life.
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  Speaker 1: Although the point is blunt. He turned the edge against
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  Speaker 1: the flank of Keenius and swung round the hero's loins
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  Speaker 1: with his long curving arm. The flesh resounded like a
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  Speaker 1: marble block. The keen blade shattered on the unyielding skin,
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  Speaker 1: and after Caenius had exposed his limbs unhurt to Latrius,
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  Speaker 1: who stood there amazed. Come now, he said, and let
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  Speaker 1: us try my steel against your body, and clear to
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  Speaker 1: the hilt down through the monster's shoulder, lady plunged his
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  Speaker 1: deadly sword, and turning it again deep in the centaur's entrails,
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  Speaker 1: made new wounds within his wound. Then, quite beside themselves,
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  Speaker 1: the double natured monsters rushed against that single handed youth
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  Speaker 1: with huge uproar and thrust and hurl their weapons all
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  Speaker 1: at him. Their blunted weapons fell, and he remained unharmed
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  Speaker 1: and without even a mark. That strange sight left them speechless.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what shame? At length, cried Monicus, our mighty host
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  Speaker 1: a nation of us are defeated and defied by one
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  Speaker 1: who hardly is a man, although indeed he is a man,
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  Speaker 1: and we have proved by our weak actions we are
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  Speaker 1: certainly what he was. Shame on us, Oh what if
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  Speaker 1: we have twofold strength of what a veil are huge
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  Speaker 1: and mighty limbs doubly united in the strongest, hugest bodies
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  Speaker 1: in this world? And how can I believe that we
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  Speaker 1: were born of any goddess? It is surely vain to
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  Speaker 1: claim descent of Great Ixian, who high souled sought Juno
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  Speaker 1: for his mighty mate. Imagine it, while we are conquered
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  Speaker 1: by an enemy who is but half a man, wake up,
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  Speaker 1: and let us heap tree, trunks, and stones and mountains
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  Speaker 1: on him, crush his stubborn life. Let forests smother him
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  Speaker 1: to death. Their weight will be as deadly as a
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  Speaker 1: hundred wounds. While he was raving, by some chance, he
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  Speaker 1: found tree thrown down there by the boisterous wind example
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  Speaker 1: to the rest. He threw that tree against the powerful foe,
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  Speaker 1: and in short time Oathris was bare of trees, and
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  Speaker 1: Pelian had no shade buried under that mountainous forest heap
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  Speaker 1: Keeneus heaved up against the weight of oaks upon his
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  Speaker 1: brawny shoulders piled, but as the loading creased above his
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  Speaker 1: face and head, he could not draw breath. Gasping for life,
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  Speaker 1: he strove to lift his head into the air, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes he convulsed the towering mud, as if great Ida,
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  Speaker 1: now before our eyes, should tremble with some heaving of
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  Speaker 1: the earth. What happened to him could not well be known.
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  Speaker 1: Some thought his body was borne down by weight into
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  Speaker 1: the vast expanse of Tartarus, the son of Ampicus, did
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  Speaker 1: not agree, for from the middle of the pile we
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  Speaker 1: sware bird with golden wings mound high in air. Before
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  Speaker 1: or since, I never saw the like. When Mopsus was
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  Speaker 1: aware of that bird's flight, it circled round the camp
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  Speaker 1: on rustling wings. With eyes and mind, he followed it
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  Speaker 1: and shouted aloud, hail, glory of the Lipithian race, their
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  Speaker 1: greatest hero, now a bird unique, and we believed the
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  Speaker 1: verdict of the seer. Our grief increased resentment, and we
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  Speaker 1: bore it with disgust that one was overwhelmed by such
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  Speaker 1: a multitude. Then, in revenge we plied our swords till
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  Speaker 1: half our foes were dead, and only flight and darkness
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  Speaker 1: save the rest. Nestor had hardly told this marvelous tale
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  Speaker 1: of bitter strife betwixt the Apithie and those half human
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  Speaker 1: vanquished centaurs. When till Apolemus incensed because no word of
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  Speaker 1: praise is given to Hercules, replied, in this way, old sir,
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  Speaker 1: it is very strange you have neglected to say one
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  Speaker 1: good word in praise of Hercules. My father told me
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  Speaker 1: often that he overcame in battle those cloud born Centaurs.
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  Speaker 1: Nestor varied loath, replied, why force me to recall old wrongs,
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  Speaker 1: to uncover sorrow buried by the years that made me
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  Speaker 1: hate your father? It is true his deeds were wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: beyond belief. Heaven knows, and fill the earth with well
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  Speaker 1: earned praise, which I should rather wish might be denied. Deophobus,
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  Speaker 1: the wise Polodamus, and even great Hector get no praise
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  Speaker 1: from me, your father, I recall once overthrow a Messines walls,
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  Speaker 1: and with no cause destroyed Elus and Pylos, and with
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  Speaker 1: fire and sword ruined my own loved home. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: name all whom he killed, but there were twelve of us,
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Nelius, and all warrior youths. And all
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  Speaker 1: those twelve a me alone he killed. Ten of them
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  Speaker 1: met the common fate of war. But sadder was the
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  Speaker 1: death of Periclamenus. Neptune, the founder of my family, had
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  Speaker 1: granted him a power to assume whatever shape he chose,
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  Speaker 1: And when he wished to lay that shape aside, when
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  Speaker 1: he in vain had been transformed to many other shapes,
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  Speaker 1: he turned into the form of that bird which is
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  Speaker 1: wont to carry in his crooked talons. The forked lightnings,
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  Speaker 1: favorite bird of Jove, with wings and crooked bill and
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  Speaker 1: sharp hooked talons, he assailed and tore the face of Hercules.
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  Speaker 1: But when he soared away on eagle wings up to
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  Speaker 1: the clouds and hovered poised in air, that hero aimed
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  Speaker 1: as too unerring bow and hit him where the new
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: wing joined his side. The wound was not large, but
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: his sinews cut failed to uphold him and denied his
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  Speaker 1: wings their strength and motion. He fell down to earth.
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  Speaker 1: His weakened pinions could not catch the air, and the
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  Speaker 1: sharp arrow, which had lightly pierced the wing, was driven
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  Speaker 1: upward through the side into the left part of my
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  Speaker 1: brother's neck. O noble leader of the Rhodian fleet, why
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  Speaker 1: should I sing the praise of Hercules? But for my
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  Speaker 1: brothers I take no revenge, except withholding praise of his
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  Speaker 1: great deeds. With you, my friendship will remain secure. When Nestor,
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  Speaker 1: with his honeyed tongue, had told these tales of old,
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  Speaker 1: they all took wine again, and they arose and gave
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  Speaker 1: the knight to sleep. But Neptune, who commands the ocean waves,
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  Speaker 1: lamented with the father's grief his son, whose person he
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: had changed into a bird, the swan of Faathon, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: towards Achilles, grim victor in the fight. His lasting hate
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: made him pursue resentment far beyond the ordinary manner of
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  Speaker 1: the gods. After nine years of war, he spoke these words,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: addressing long haireds Sminthy Apollo, Oh nephew, the most dear
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  Speaker 1: to me of all my brother's sons. With me, you
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  Speaker 1: built in vain the walls of Troy. You must be
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  Speaker 1: lost in grief when you look on those towers so
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  Speaker 1: soon to fall? Or do you not lament the multitude
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  Speaker 1: slain in defense of them? To name but one does
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  Speaker 1: not the ghost of Hector, dragged around his pergamer, appear
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  Speaker 1: to you. And yet the fierce Achilles, whose blood stained
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  Speaker 1: more than slaughtering war, lives on this earth for the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of our toil. Let him once get into my power,
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  Speaker 1: and I will make him feel the action of my
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  Speaker 1: triple spear. But since I may not meet him face
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  Speaker 1: to face, do you, with sudden arrow give him death?
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  Speaker 1: The Delian god Apollo gave assent, both for his own
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: hate and his uncle's rage. Veiled in a cloud, he
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: found the Trojan host, and there, while bloody strife went on,
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  Speaker 1: he saw the hero Paris shoot at intervals his arrows
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  Speaker 1: at the nameless host of Greeks, revealing his divinity. He said,
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  Speaker 1: why spend your arrows on the common men, if you
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  Speaker 1: would serve your people, take good aim at great Achilles,
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  Speaker 1: and at last avenge your hapless brothers, whom he gave
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  Speaker 1: to death. He pointed out Achilles, laying low the Trojan
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  Speaker 1: warriors with his mighty spear on him. He turned the
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  Speaker 1: Trojan's willing bow and guide it with his hand the
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  Speaker 1: fatal shaft. It was the first joy that old priam
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  Speaker 1: you since Hector's death. So then, Achilles, you who overcame
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  Speaker 1: the mighty, were subdued by a coward who seduced a
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  Speaker 1: Grecian wife. Ah, if you could not die by manly hands,
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  Speaker 1: your choice had been the axe. Now that great terror
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: of the Trojan race, the glory and defense of the Pelaskians. Achilles,
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  Speaker 1: first in war, lay on the pyre, the god of fire,
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  Speaker 1: first armed, then burned as limbs. And now he is
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  Speaker 1: but ashes, and of him so great, renowned and mighty.
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  Speaker 1: But a pitiful handful of small dust, insufficient for a
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  Speaker 1: little urn. But all his glory lives enough to fill
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  Speaker 1: the world a great reward, and in that glory is
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  Speaker 1: his real life. In a true sense. He will never
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  Speaker 1: know the void of Tartarus. But soon his very shield,
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  Speaker 1: that men might know to whom it had belonged, brings war,
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  Speaker 1: and arms are taken for his arms. Neither Diomede nor
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  Speaker 1: Ajax call the less ventured to claim the hero's mighty shield.
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  Speaker 1: Menelaeus and other warlike chiefs, even Agamemnon all withdrew their claims.
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  Speaker 1: Only the greater Ajax and Ulysses had such assurance that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: they dared contest for that great prize. Then Agamemnon chose
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: to avoid the odium of preferring one he bad. The
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  Speaker 1: Argolic chieftains take their seats within the camp, and left
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  Speaker 1: to all of them the hearing and decision of them cause.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book twelve, Part two,