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05 - How the Arms of Achilles were cause of madness and death unto Aias - The Fall of Troy · The Fall of Troy

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  Speaker 1: So when all other contests had an end, Thetis the Goddess,
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  Speaker 1: laid down in the midst great souled achilles, arms divinely wrought,
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  Speaker 1: and all around flashed out the cunning work, wherewith the
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  Speaker 1: fire God overchased the shield fashioned varaakis Sun. The dauntless
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  Speaker 1: souls in wrought upon that labor of a god were
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  Speaker 1: first high heaven and cloud land, and beneath lay earth
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  Speaker 1: and sea. The winds the clouds were there, the Moon
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  Speaker 1: and Sun, each in its several place. There too were
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  Speaker 1: all the stars that fixed in Heaven are borne in
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  Speaker 1: its eternal circlings. Round above and threw all was the
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  Speaker 1: infinite air, Where to and fro flit birds of slender
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  Speaker 1: beak thou hast said they lived and floated on the breeze.
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  Speaker 1: Here thetus all embracing arms were wrought, and ocean's fathomless flow,
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  Speaker 1: the out rushing flood of rivers, crying to the echoing
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  Speaker 1: hills all round to right to left roll'd o'er the land,
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  Speaker 1: and round it rose league long mountain ridges, haunts of
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  Speaker 1: terrible lions and foul jackals. There fierce bears and panthers
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  Speaker 1: prowled with these were seen wild boars that wetted, deadly,
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  Speaker 1: clashing tusks in grimly frothing jaws. There hunters sped after
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  Speaker 1: the helms, beaters with stone and dart to the life
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  Speaker 1: were traded toiled in the woodland sport, and there were
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  Speaker 1: man devouring wars, and all the horrors of fight. Slain
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  Speaker 1: men were falling down mid horsehoods, and the likeness of
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  Speaker 1: the plain, blood drenched was on that shield. Invincible panic
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  Speaker 1: was there, and dread and ghastly eno with limbs, all
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  Speaker 1: gore besplatted hideously, had deadly strife, and the avenging spirits,
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  Speaker 1: fierce hearted, she still goading warriors horn to the onset
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  Speaker 1: they out, breathing breath of fire. Around them hover the
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  Speaker 1: relentless feats beside them, baffle, incarnate onward, pressed, yelling, and
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  Speaker 1: from their limb stream blood and sweat. There were the
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  Speaker 1: roof was cord cottons through their hair, horrible serpents coiled
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  Speaker 1: with flickering tongues. A measureless marvel was that cunning work
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  Speaker 1: of things that made men shudder to behold, seeming as
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  Speaker 1: though they verily lived and moved. And while here all
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  Speaker 1: war's marvels were betrayed yonder all the works of lovely peace.
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  Speaker 1: The myriad tribes of much enduring men dwelt in fair
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  Speaker 1: cities just this watched or all to diver's toils. They
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  Speaker 1: set their hands. The fields were harvest laden earth. Her
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  Speaker 1: increase bore most steeply rose on that god labored work.
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  Speaker 1: The rugged flanks of holy honors mount, and there upon
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  Speaker 1: a palm tree throned. She sat exalted, and her hands
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  Speaker 1: reached up to Heaven. All round her paths broken by
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  Speaker 1: many rocks, thwarted the climber's feet by those steep tracks
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  Speaker 1: daunted ye saw returning many folk. Few won by sweat
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  Speaker 1: of toil the sacred height, and there were reapers moving
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  Speaker 1: down long swaths, swinging the wetted sickles neath their hands.
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  Speaker 1: The hot work sped to its clothes hard. After these,
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  Speaker 1: many sheaf binders followed, and the work grew, passing great
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  Speaker 1: With yoke bands on their necks, oxen were there whereof
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  Speaker 1: some drew the wains heat high with foliage sheath, and
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  Speaker 1: further on were others plowing, and the gelb showed black
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  Speaker 1: behind them. Youths with ever busy golds followed a world
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  Speaker 1: of toil was there for trayed, and there a banquet
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  Speaker 1: was with pipe and harp, dances of maids and flashing
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  Speaker 1: feet of boys, all in swift movement, like to living souls,
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  Speaker 1: hard by the dance and its sweet winds. Out of
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  Speaker 1: the sea was rising lovely crowned Cyprus, foam blossoms still
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  Speaker 1: upon her hair, and round her hovered smiling witchingly desire,
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  Speaker 1: and danced the grace's lovely drest. And there were lordly
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  Speaker 1: nearest daughters shone leading their sister up from the wide
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  Speaker 1: sea to her espousals with the warrior king, and round
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  Speaker 1: her all the immortals banqueted on Pelium's ridge, far stretching
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  Speaker 1: all about lush, dewy watermeads there were bestarred with flowers,
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  Speaker 1: innumerable grassy groves and springs with clear, transparent water. Bright.
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  Speaker 1: There ships with sighing sheets swept o'er the sea, some
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  Speaker 1: beating up to windward, some that sped before a following wind,
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  Speaker 1: and round them heaved. The melancholy surge seared. Shipmen rushed
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  Speaker 1: this way and that, a dreadful tempest, gust, hauling the
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  Speaker 1: white sails in to scape the death. It all seemed real.
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  Speaker 1: Some tugging at the oars, while the dark sea on
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  Speaker 1: either side. The ship prew hoary neath the swiftly plashing blades,
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  Speaker 1: and there triumphant the earth shaker rode amid sea monsters,
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  Speaker 1: stormy footed steeds drew him, and seem'd alive. As o'er
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  Speaker 1: the deep, they raced off, smitten by the golden whip.
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  Speaker 1: Around their path of flight, the waves fell smooth, and
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  Speaker 1: all before them was a rippled calm. Dolphins on either
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  Speaker 1: hand about their king swung in wild rapture of homage,
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  Speaker 1: bowing packs, and seem'd like live things. Or the hazy
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  Speaker 1: sea swimming albeit of silver wrought marvels of untold craft
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  Speaker 1: were imaged there by cunning soul'd of festless, deathless hands
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  Speaker 1: upon the shield, and ocean's fathomless flood clasped like a
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  Speaker 1: garland all the outer rim and compassed all the strong
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  Speaker 1: shield's curious work. And there beside the massy helm lay
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  Speaker 1: Zeus in his wrath, was set upon the crest, throning
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  Speaker 1: it on Heaven's dome. The immortals all around, fierce battling
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  Speaker 1: with the Titans, fought for Zeus. Already were their foes
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  Speaker 1: enrapt with flame. For thick and fastest. Snowflakes poured from
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  Speaker 1: heaven the thunderbolts, the might of Zeus was roused, and
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  Speaker 1: burning giants seemed to breathe out flames. And there beside
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  Speaker 1: the fair, strong corselet lay unpierceable which clasped pleaades. Once
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  Speaker 1: there were the greaves close, lapping light aloon to Achilles.
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  Speaker 1: Massy of mold and hues they were, and hard by
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  Speaker 1: flashed the sword, whose edge and point no male could turn,
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  Speaker 1: with golden belt and sheath of silver, and with halft
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  Speaker 1: of ivory, brightest among those wondrous arms, each shone stretched
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  Speaker 1: on the earth. Thereby was that dreads spear, long as
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  Speaker 1: the tall trest pines of Pelion, still breathing out the
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  Speaker 1: wreak of Hector's blood. Then mid the argive stethis Savel
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  Speaker 1: scold in her deep sorrow for Achilles' fate. Now all
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  Speaker 1: the athlete prizes have been won, which I set forth
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  Speaker 1: in sorrow for my child. Now let that mightiest of
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  Speaker 1: ourgives come, who rescued from the foe my dead. To him,
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  Speaker 1: these glorious immortal arms I give, which even the blessed
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  Speaker 1: deathless joy to see. Then rose in rivalry, each claiming
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  Speaker 1: them lay out ye seed and God like Telemun's son
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  Speaker 1: Paeas the mightiest far of Dannian men. He seem'd the
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  Speaker 1: star that in the glittering sky outshines the host of
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  Speaker 1: heaven Hesperus so splendid by Plead's arms, he stood and
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  Speaker 1: let these judge. He cried, Idomeneus, Nestor, and kingly counsel Adamemnon,
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  Speaker 1: for these he ween'd would sureliest know the truth of
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  Speaker 1: deeds wrought in that glorious battle. Toil to these I
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  Speaker 1: also trust most utterly. Odysseus said, for prudent of their
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  Speaker 1: wit be these and princeless of all Danian men. But
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  Speaker 1: Hidominius and Natreus son spake Nestor apart, and willingly they heard, friends,
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  Speaker 1: a great woe and unendurable this day the careless gods
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  Speaker 1: have laid on us, and that into this lamentable strife,
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  Speaker 1: aas the Mighty hath been thrust by them against Odysseus,
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  Speaker 1: passing wise for he to whitsoe'er God gives the victor's glory,
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  Speaker 1: O yea, he shall rejoice. But he that loseth all
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  Speaker 1: for the grief and all the Dannia's hearts for him,
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  Speaker 1: and all shall be the deepest grief of all, for
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  Speaker 1: that man will not, in the war stand by us,
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  Speaker 1: as of all a sorrowful day. It shall be for
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  Speaker 1: us whichsoe'er of thee shall break into fierce anger, seeing
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  Speaker 1: they are of our hero's chiefest, this in war and
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  Speaker 1: that in council. Hearken then to me, seeing I am
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  Speaker 1: older far than ye, not by a few years. Only
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  Speaker 1: with mine age is prudence join'd, For I have suffered
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  Speaker 1: and wrought much, And in counsel ever the old man,
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  Speaker 1: who knoweth much excelleth younger men. Therefore let us ordain
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  Speaker 1: to judge this cause tookst God like Aias and war
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  Speaker 1: faint Odysseus are Trojan captives. They shall say, whom most
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  Speaker 1: our foes dread, and whose safely ladies course from that
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  Speaker 1: most deadly fight. Lo in our midst be many spear
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  Speaker 1: won Trojans falls of faith, and these will pass true judgment.
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  Speaker 1: All these twain to neither showing favor, since they hate
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  Speaker 1: alike all authors of their misery. He spake, replied Agamemnon,
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  Speaker 1: Lord of spears, ancient. There is none other in our
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  Speaker 1: midst wiser than thou of Danian's young or old, In
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  Speaker 1: that thou sayest, the unforgiving wrath will burn in him,
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  Speaker 1: to whom the gods he arein deny the victory. For
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  Speaker 1: these which strive are both our chiefest. Therefore mine heart
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  Speaker 1: too is set on this, that to the thralls of war,
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  Speaker 1: this judgment we commit. The loser then shall against Troy
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  Speaker 1: devise his deadly work of vengeance, and shall not be
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  Speaker 1: wroth with us. He spake, And these three, being of
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  Speaker 1: one mind, in hearing of all men, refuse to judge judgment,
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  Speaker 1: so thankless they would none of it. Therefore they set
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  Speaker 1: the high born sons of Troy there in the midst
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  Speaker 1: spear thralls, although they were to give just judgment in
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  Speaker 1: the warrior's strife. Then in hot anger, Aias rose and
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  Speaker 1: spake Odysseus, frantic soul. Why hath a god deluded thee
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  Speaker 1: to make THEE hold thyself my peer in might invincible?
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  Speaker 1: Dare'st thou saveth thou when slain Achilles lay and dust,
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  Speaker 1: when round him swarm the Trojans, didstpair back that furious wrong?
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  Speaker 1: When I amidst them hurled death? And thou cowardest away
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  Speaker 1: thy damn bear. Thee a craven and a weakling wretch,
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  Speaker 1: fell in comparison of me, as is a curb beside
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  Speaker 1: a lion. Thunder voiced, No battle biding heart is in
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  Speaker 1: thy breast, But whiles and treachery be all thy care.
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast forgotten how thou didst shrink back from bearing
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  Speaker 1: with the chaos gathered host to Alien's holy burgh, till
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  Speaker 1: atreus sons forth thee the cowering craven, how lothso heir
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  Speaker 1: to follow them hood God, thou hadst never come for
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  Speaker 1: by thy counsel, we left in Lemnos isle, groaning in agony,
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  Speaker 1: poeas son renowned, not for him alone was ruined, devised
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  Speaker 1: of thee. For godlike Palamedes, too, didst thou contrive destruction
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  Speaker 1: ha He was alike in battling council, better than thou.
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  Speaker 1: And now thou darest rise up against me, neither remembering
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  Speaker 1: my kindness nor having respect unto the mightier man who
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  Speaker 1: rescue thee. Erewhile when thou didst qwaf in fight before
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  Speaker 1: the onset of thy foes, when thou forsaken of all
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  Speaker 1: Greeks beside midst tumult of the fray, wast fleeing too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that in that great fight thou self had stayed
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  Speaker 1: my poultless might with thunder from his heaven. Then with
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  Speaker 1: their two heads swords, the trojan men had hewn thee
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  Speaker 1: limb from limb, and to her dogs had cast thy carrion.
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  Speaker 1: Then thou hadst not presumed to meet me, trusting in
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  Speaker 1: thy cherries, wretch. Wherefore if thou, thoughtest thee and might
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  Speaker 1: beyond all others, hast thou set thy ships in the
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  Speaker 1: line's center, screamed from foes, nor dared as I on
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  Speaker 1: the far wing, to draw them up, because thou w
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  Speaker 1: wast afraid, not thou. It was who savest from devouring
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  Speaker 1: fire the ships, But I, with heart unquelling, there stood
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  Speaker 1: fast facing the fire, and hector I even he gave
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  Speaker 1: back before me everywhere in fight Thou thou didst fear him,
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  Speaker 1: I with deadly fear. O had this our contention been
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  Speaker 1: but set amidst that very battle, when the roar of
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  Speaker 1: conflict rose around Achilles slain, Then had thine own eyes
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  Speaker 1: seen me bearing forth out from the battle's heart and
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  Speaker 1: fury of foes, that goodly armor and its hero lord
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  Speaker 1: unto the tents. But here thou canst but trust in
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  Speaker 1: cunning speech and covetest the place among the mighty. Thou
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  Speaker 1: thou hast not strength to wear an Achilles arms invincible,
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  Speaker 1: nor sway his massy spear and thy weak hands. But
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  Speaker 1: I they are verily molded to my frame. Yay, seemly
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  Speaker 1: it is I wear those glorious arms, who shall not
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  Speaker 1: shame a God's gift, passing fair? But wherefore for Achilles
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  Speaker 1: glorious arms with words, this courteous wrangling stand we hear. Come,
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  Speaker 1: let us try in strife with brazen spears, who of
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  Speaker 1: us train is best? In murderous right for silver footed
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  Speaker 1: fatties set in the midst this prize for prowers, not
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  Speaker 1: for pestilent words in folkmote, May men have useful words
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  Speaker 1: in pride of powers. I know me above thee far
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  Speaker 1: and great Achilles lineage is mine own. He spake with
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  Speaker 1: scornful glance and bitter speech. Odysseus, the resourceful chold with
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  Speaker 1: him pass unbridled tongue. Why these vain words to me
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  Speaker 1: thou hast called me pestilent, nurring and whakling. Yet I
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  Speaker 1: boast me better far than thou in wit and speech,
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  Speaker 1: which things increase the strength of men lo have a
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  Speaker 1: craggy rock and a mantime. Though it seem the hewers
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  Speaker 1: of stone amid the hills by wisdom undermined full lightly,
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  Speaker 1: And by wisdom shipmen cross the thunderous plunging sea, when
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  Speaker 1: mountain high it surgeth And by craft do hunters quell
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  Speaker 1: strong lions, panthers, boars. Yea, all the brood of wild things,
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  Speaker 1: furious hearted bulls are pained to bear the yoke bands
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  Speaker 1: by device of men. Yea, All things are by wit accomplished. Still,
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  Speaker 1: it is the man who knoweth that excels the witless
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  Speaker 1: man alike in toils and councils. For my keen wit,
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  Speaker 1: did Naonia's valiant son choose me of all men with
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  Speaker 1: him to draw nigh to Hector's watchmen, yea, and mighty
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  Speaker 1: deeds we twain accomplished. I it was who brought to
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  Speaker 1: atreus sons pleaades far renown'd their battle helper. Whence, however
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  Speaker 1: the host needeth some other champion. Not for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of thine hands will he come, nor by the reed
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  Speaker 1: of other urdives of Achaeans. I alone will draw him,
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  Speaker 1: with soft suasive words to where strong men are warring
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  Speaker 1: mighty power. The tongue hath over men when courtesy inspires it.
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  Speaker 1: Thoalor is a deedless thing, and bulk and big assemblage
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  Speaker 1: of a man cometh to naught. Thy wisdom unattended, but
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  Speaker 1: unto me, the immortals gave both strength and wisdom, and
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  Speaker 1: unto the argive host, made me a blessing. Nor as
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  Speaker 1: thou hast said, hast thou in time past saved me
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  Speaker 1: when in flight from foes, I never fled, but steadfastly
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  Speaker 1: withstood the charge of all the trojan host. Furious the
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  Speaker 1: enemy came on like a flood, but I, by might
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  Speaker 1: of hands, cut short the thread of many lives. Herein
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  Speaker 1: thou sayest not true me in the fray, Thou didst
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  Speaker 1: not shield nor save, but for thine own life, roughest
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  Speaker 1: lest thy spear should pierce thy back. If thou shouldst
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  Speaker 1: turn and flee from war, my ships I drew them
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  Speaker 1: up mid line, not dreading the battle fury of any foe,
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  Speaker 1: but to bring healing unto atrious sons of war's calamities.
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  Speaker 1: And thou didst set far from their help thy ships.
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  Speaker 1: Nay more, I seem'd with cruel straps my body, and
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  Speaker 1: enter'd so the Trojan's burg, that I might learn of
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  Speaker 1: them all their devisings for this troublous war. Nor ever
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  Speaker 1: I dreaded Hector's spear, myself rose mid the foremost eager
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  Speaker 1: for the fight. When power's confident he defied us all yea,
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  Speaker 1: in the fight round Achilles, I slew foes far more
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  Speaker 1: than thou, twas I who saved the dead king with
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  Speaker 1: this armor. Not a whit I dread thy spear now,
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  Speaker 1: But my grievous, hurt with pain, still vexeth me the
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  Speaker 1: wound I gat in fighting for these arms and their
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  Speaker 1: slain lord in me as an Achilles is zeus blood.
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  Speaker 1: He spake strong aass answered him again, those cunning and
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  Speaker 1: most pestilent of men. Nor I nor any other argar
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  Speaker 1: saw thee toiling in that fray. When Trojans strove fiercely
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  Speaker 1: to hell away Achilles slain py might. It was that,
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  Speaker 1: with the spear unstrung, the knees of some in fight,
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  Speaker 1: and others thrilled with panic as they pressed on ceaselessly.
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  Speaker 1: Then fled they entire streets as geese saw cranes flee
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  Speaker 1: from an eagle swooping as they feed along a grassy meadow.
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  Speaker 1: So in dreadue, the Trojans, shrinking back from my spear
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  Speaker 1: and lightning sword, fled into Ilium to scape destruction. If
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  Speaker 1: I might come there ever at all, Not anywhere nigh
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  Speaker 1: me with folds, Thou forest somewhere far aloof mid other ranks,
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  Speaker 1: Thou toildest nowhere nigh Achilles, where one great battle raged spake,
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  Speaker 1: replied Odysseus, the shrewd heart eyes. I hold myself no
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  Speaker 1: worse than thou in wit are might, how goodly and
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  Speaker 1: outward show thou be so heir. Nay, I am keener
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  Speaker 1: far in whit than thou in all the arty've eyes
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  Speaker 1: in battle powers, do I equal thee haply surpass. And
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  Speaker 1: this the Trojans know who tremble when they see me
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  Speaker 1: from afar Ai Thou too knowest, and others know my
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  Speaker 1: strength by that hard struggle in the wrestling match, when
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  Speaker 1: Pila's son set glorious prizes forth beside the barrow of Petropolis, slain,
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  Speaker 1: so spake lay'd ye sun the world renown'd then on
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  Speaker 1: that strife disastrous of the strong. The sons of Troy
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  Speaker 1: gave judgment victory, and those immortal arms awarded they with
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  Speaker 1: one consent to Odysseus Mighty in war greatly his soul rejoiced,
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  Speaker 1: but one deep groan break from the Greeks. Then as
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  Speaker 1: noble might stood frozen, stiff, and suddenly fell on him, dark, bewilderment,
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  Speaker 1: all blood within his frame boil'd, and his gaw swelled,
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  Speaker 1: bursting forth in flood against his liver. Heaved his pewls,
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  Speaker 1: his heart with anguished pangs, was thrilled. Fierce stabbing froes
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  Speaker 1: shot through the filmy vell TwixT bone and brain, and
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  Speaker 1: darkness and confusion racked his mind. With fixed eyes staring
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, he stood still as a statue. Then
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  Speaker 1: his sorrowing friends closed round him, led him to the
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  Speaker 1: shapely ship's eye, murmuring consolations. But his feet trod for
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  Speaker 1: the last time with reluctant steps that path, and hard
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  Speaker 1: behind him followed doom. When to the ships beside the
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  Speaker 1: boundless sea, the argives fate for supper and for sleep
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  Speaker 1: had passed into the great deep, fetis plung'd, and all
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  Speaker 1: the nereds with her. Round them swam sea monsters, many
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  Speaker 1: children of the brine, against the wise Prometheus. Bitter wroth,
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  Speaker 1: the sea maids were remembering how that Zeus mov'd by
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  Speaker 1: his prophecies unto Peleus gave Thetis to wife, a most
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  Speaker 1: unwilling bride, then cried in wrath to thee simothoe O,
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  Speaker 1: that the pestilent prophet had endured all pangs he merited.
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  Speaker 1: When deep burrowing the eagle tear his liver, I renew'd
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  Speaker 1: so to the dark haired sea maids, cried the nymph,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: then sank the sun. The onrush of the night shadowed
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  Speaker 1: the fields. The heavens were star bestrewn, and by the long,
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  Speaker 1: proud ships. The argys slept by ambrosial sleep ormaster'd and
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  Speaker 1: by wine, the which from prouded ominious realm of creek,
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  Speaker 1: the shipmen bare or foaming leagues of sea. But aas
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  Speaker 1: wroth against the argive men, would none have beat, or drink,
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  Speaker 1: nor clasp round him the arms of sleep. In fury,
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  Speaker 1: he donn'd his knell, he clutch'd his sword, thinking unspeakable thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: For now he thought to set the ships aflame, and
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: thought he all the argives now to Hugh with sudden
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: on thought of his terrible sword tile full Odysseus limb
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: from limb, such things he purpos'd they had soon accomplish'd all,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: had Pallas not with madness smitten him for over Odysseus
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  Speaker 1: strong to endure her heart yearn'd as she call'd to
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  Speaker 1: mind the sacri vices offered to her of him. Continually.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore she turned aside from our give men the might
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  Speaker 1: of aass as a terrible storm whose wings are laden
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  Speaker 1: with tread. Hurricane blast cometh with portents of heart combing
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  Speaker 1: fear to shipmen when the pleaades, fleeing a dread from
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  Speaker 1: glorious orion, plunge beneath the stream of tireless ocean, where
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the air is turmoil and the sea is mad with storm.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: So rushed he whitherso ere his feet might bear. This
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: way and fat you Han like some fierce beast which
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: darteth down a rock walled glens, ravines with foaming jaws
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  Speaker 1: and murderous intent against the hounds and huntsmen who have
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: torn out of the cave her cubs and slain. She
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: runs this way and that, and roars if mid the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: breaks haply she may see the dear ones lost whom
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: if a man beaten that maddened mood straightway, his darkest
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: of all days hath dawned so ruthless, raving, rusty, blackly
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  Speaker 1: boiled his heart as cauldron on the fire god hearth
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  Speaker 1: maddens with ceaseless hissing on the flames from the blazing
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  Speaker 1: billets coiling round its sides, at bidding of the toiler
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  Speaker 1: eager soul to singe the bristles of a huge bed
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: boar soul. Was his great heart coiling in his breast
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: like a wild sea. He raved like tempest, blast, like
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  Speaker 1: the wind might of tireless flame, amidst the mountains, maddened
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: by a mighty wind, when the wide blazing forest crumbles
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: down in fervent heat, so aas his fierce heart, with agony,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: stabbed in maddened misery, raved foam, fought about his lips.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: A beast like roar howled from his throat, about his shoulders,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: clasped his armor, they which saw him tremble, all cowled
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  Speaker 1: by the fearful shout of that one man from ocean.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Then uprose dawn, golden, rained like a soft wind, upfloated
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  Speaker 1: sleep to heaven, and there met Hera even then returned
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  Speaker 1: to Olympus, back from Thetis unto whom but yester morn
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: she went, and sleep swiftly flew to Pasithia's couch. From
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: slumber woke all nations of the earth. But Aas, like
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Orion the Invincible, prowled on still, bearing murderous madness in
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: his heart. He rushed upon the sheep, like lion fierce,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: whose savage heart is stung with hunger pangs. Here there
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he smoke them, laved them dead in dust thick as
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the LEAs which the strong north winds might strews when
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the waning year to winter turns, so on the sheep
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: in fury. Aas fell deeming he dealt to Danian's evil doom.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Then to his brother men Olaus came and spake not
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: in the hearing of the rest, this day shall surely
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: be a ruinous day for all. Since Aas thus his
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: sense distraught. It may be he will set the ships
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: aflame and slay us all amidst our tents in wrath.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: For those lost arms. Would God that Thetis ne'er had
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: set them for the prize of bivalry would God laiaty
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: son had not presum'd in folly of soul to strive
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: with a better man. Fools were we all, for some
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: malignant god beguiled us, for the one great war defense
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: left us. Since Aachi's son in battle fell was aas
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: mighty strength. And now the God's will to our loss,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: destroy him, bringing pain on thee and me, that all
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: we may fill up the cup of doom and pass
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to nothingness. He spake, replied Agamemnon, lord of spears. Now
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: nay Menelaus, though thine hearty wrung, be thou not wroth
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: with the resourceful king of the Sapphelenian folk, but with
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the gods who plot our ruin. Blame not him who
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: oft hath been our blessing and our enemy's curse. So
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: heavy hearted spake the Danian kings. But by the streams
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: of Xantho's far away neath Tamaris, shepherds coward to hide
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  Speaker 1: from death, as when from a swift eagle cower hares
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: neath tangled copses, when with sharp fierce stream this way
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and that, with wings wide shadowing, he wielleth very nigh.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: So they here there quell from the presence of that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: furious man. At last, above a slaughtered ram, he stood,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and with deadly laugh he cried, to it lie a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: dust bee beet for dogs and kites, Achilles, glorious harm
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: have saved not thee for which thy folly strove with
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a better man. Ay there thou cor No wife shall
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: fall on thee and clasp and well thee at her
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: fatherless child. Nor shalt thou greet thy parents longing eyes
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the staff of our old age. Far from thy land,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: thy carrion, dogs and vultures shall depower. So cried he,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: thinking that amidst the slain Odysseus lay blood boltered at
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: his feet. But in that moment, from his mind and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: eyes Athena tore away the knightmare fiend of madness habit breathing,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: And it passed thence swiftly to the rock walled river Styx,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: where dwell the Winderrenneus, they which still visit with torments
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: overweening men. Then they'a saw those sheep upon the earth,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: gasping in death, and sore. Amazed, he stood, for he
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: divined that by the blessed ones, his senses had been cheated,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: all his limbs fail'd under him. His soul was anguish thrill.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: He could not, in his horror take one step forward
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a backward like some towering rock fast rooted me the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: mountains there he stood. But when the wild out of
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: his thoughts had rallied, he groan'd in misery and in anguish.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Well'd ah me, Why do the gods abhore me soul?
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: They have wreck'd my mind, have with fell madness fill'd,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: making me slaughter all these innocent sheep. Good God, that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: on Odysseus, pestilent heart mine hands had so avenged me miscreant,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: he brought on me a fell curse. O, may his
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: soul suffer all the torments that the avenging fiends devise
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: for villains on all other Greeks. May they bring murderous battle,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: woeful griefs, And chiefly on Agamemnon Atreus son not scaithless
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to home. May he return so long desired. But why
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: should I consort I, a brave man, with the abominable
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: perish the argive host perish? My life now unendurable? The
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: brave no more hath his due girden. But the baser
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: sort are honored most and loved as this Odysseus hath
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: worshiped mid the Greeks. But utterly have they forgotten me
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: and all my deeds, all that I wrought and suffered
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in their cause. So spake the brave son of strong Telaman.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Then thirst for lord of Hector, threw his throat forth
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: rust the blood in torrent in the dust. Outstretched, he
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: lay like Typhon, when the bolts of Zeus had blasted
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: him around him cromed the dark earth as he fell
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: upon her breast. Then thronging came the Danians when they
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: saw low laid in the dust the hero. But e'er
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: then none dared draw nigh him, But in deadly fear
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: they watched him from afar. Now hastened they and flung
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: themselves upon the dead, outstretched upon their faces, on their heads,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: they cast dust and the wailing when up to the sky,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: as when men drive away the tender lambs out of
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the fleecy flock, to feast thereon, and round the desolate
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: pen the mother's leap ceaselessly bleating saw our as rang
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that day of very great and bitter cry. Wild echoes
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: pealed from ida forest paul'd, and from the plain the
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: ships the boundless sea. Then terser clasping him, was minded
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: too to rush on bitter doom, howbeit the rest held
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: from the sword his hand anguished, he fell upon the dead,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: outpouring many a tear, more comfortless than the orphan babe
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: than wils beside the hearth, with ashes strewn on head
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and shoulders, wails bereavement's day that brings death to the
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: mother who hath nursed the fatherless child. So weilled he
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: ever wail'd his great death stricken brother, creeping slow around
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the corpse and uttering his lament, oh aas mighty sould.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Why was thine heart distraught that thou shoulds steal unto
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: thyself murder and bell ah? Was it that the sons
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: of Troy might win a breathing space from woes, might
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: come and slay the Greeks? Now thou art not for
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: these shall all the old encourage fell? When fast they
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: fall in fight. Their shield from harm is broken. Now
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: for me, I have no will to see mine home
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: again now thou art dead, Nay, But I long here
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: also now to die, that so the earth may shroud
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: me me and thee not for my parents. So much
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: do I care if haply, yet they live if haply,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: yet spared from the grave and salamns they dwell. As
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: for thee my glory and my crown. So cried he,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: groaning sore with answering moan. Queenly tech Messa well, the princess,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: bride of noble ass, captive of his spear, yettain'd by
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: him to wife and household. Queen o'er all his substance,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: even all that wives won with a bride price rule
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: for wedded lords. Clasped in his mighty arms, she bare
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to him a son, your isysaches and all things like
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: unto his father, as far as a babe might be.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Yet treadled in his tent. With bitter moan, fell she
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: on her dear corpse, all her fair form, close shrouded
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in her veil and dust defile, and from her anguist
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: heart cried piteously, alas for me, for me, now thou
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: art dead, not by the hands of foes in fight
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: struck down, but by thine own on me, is come
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: a grief ever abiding. Never I had looked to see
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: thy woeful death. They here by troy ah visions shatter'd
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: by rude hands of faith. O that the earth had ye,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: And why for my grave ere I beheld thy bitter
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: doom on me? No sharper more heart piercing pang hath come,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: No not when first from fatherland afar and parents, thou
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: didst pare me quelling sworm. You are the captives, when
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the day of bondage had come on me a princess theretofore,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: not for that dear lost home so much I grieve,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: nor for my parents dead, as now for thee For
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: all thine heart was kindness unto me, the hapless, and
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: thou mad'st me thy wife one's soul with thee yea
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and the promise it is to throne me queen of
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: fair thoward Salamus. When home we won from Troy, the
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: gods denied accomplishment thereof, and thou hast passed into the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: unseen land. Thou hast forgot me and thy child, who
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: never shall make glad. His father's heart shall never mount
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: thy throne, but him shall strangers make a wretched thrall.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: For when the father is no more the babest ward
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: of meaner men, a weary life the orphan knows, and
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: suffering cometh in every side upon him, like a flood
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to me too thralled, the day shall doubtless come, nor
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: thou hast died, who wast my god on earth? Then
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: in all kindness, Agamemnon, speak, princess, No man on earth
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: shall make thee thrall while tersa liveth Yet, while yet
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: I live, thou should have worship of us evermore, and
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: honor as a goddess with thy son, as though yet
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: living worth a god like manaas who was the Akain's
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: chiefest strength. Ah that he had not laid this load
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: of grief on all, in dying by his own right hand,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: for all the countless armies of his foe never avail
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: to slay him in fair fight. So spake he grieve
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: to the inmost heart. The folk woefully wafted all round
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: o'er hellas pont echoes of mourning roll, the sighing air
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: darken'd around a wide spread sorrow. Haul yea grief laid
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: hold on wise Odysseus self for the great dead, and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: with remorseful soul to anguish stricken argives. Thus he spake,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: O friends, there is no greater curse to men than wrath,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: which groweth till its bitter fruit his strife. Now wrath
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: hath goaded ass all to this dire issue of rays
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: that filled his soul against me, hood to God that
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: ne'er yon Trojans in the strife, for Achilles's arms had
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: crowned me, with that victory for which strong Telemann's brave son,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: in agony of soul, thus perish'd by his own right hand,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: yet blamed not me. I prayed for his wrath, plame
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: with a dark, dolorous faith that struck him down. For
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: had mine heart foreboded aught of this, this desperation of
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: soul distraught, Never for victory had I striven with him,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: nor had I suffer'd any danniant else, though ne'er so
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: eager to contend with him, Nay, I had taken up
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: those arms divine with mine own hands, had gladly given
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: them to him, I though himself desired it not but
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: for such mighty grief had wrath in him. I had
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: not look'd, not since for a woman's sake, nor for city,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: nor possessions wide. I then contended but for honor's meade,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: which always is for right hearted men, the happy goal
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: of all their rivalry. But that grey hearted man was
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: led astray by faith the hateful fiend. For surely it
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: is unworthy a man to be made pass fool. The
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: wise man's part is steadfast soul, to endure all ills,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: and not to rage against his lot. So spake lay't
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: his sun the far renown'd. But when they all were
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: weary of grief and groan, then to those sorrowing ones
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: spake nearly a sun, o friends. The pitiless hearted fates
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: have laid stroke after stroke of sorrow upon us, sorrow
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: for aas dead, for mighty Achilles, for many an argive,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and for mine own son, Antilochus. Yet all unmeet. It
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: is day after day with passion of grief to well
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: men slain in battle. Nay, we must forget laments and
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: turn us to the better task of rending dues beseeming
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: to the dead, the dues of Pyre, of Tohomb of
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: bones iner'd. No lamentations will awake the dead. Non thereof
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: he taketh where the fates, the ruthless ones, have swallow'd
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: him in night, So spake ye words of cheer. The
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: godlike kings gathered with heavy hearts around the dead, and
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: many hands upheaved the giant corpse, and swiftly bare him
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: to the ships, and there lost they away the blood
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: that clotted, lay dustle liket on mighty limbs and armor.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Then in linen swath'd him round from Ida's heights. Wood
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: without measure did young men bring, and pil'd it round
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: the corpse, billets and logs. Yet more in a wide circle.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Heap they round, and sheep they lay thereon fair woven vest,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and goodly, kind and speed triumphant steeds, and gleaming gold
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: and armor, without stint from slain foes, by that glorious hero,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: stripp'd and loocent amber. Drops they lay thereon tears, they say,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: which the daughters of the On, the Lord of Omens,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: shed for faiethon slain, when by Eurydanu's flood they mourned
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: for him. These for undying honor to his son, the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: God made amber precious in men's eyes. Even this the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: argis on that broad based pyre, cast freely honoring the
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: mighty dead, and round him, croning heavily, they laid silver,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: most fair and precious ivory, and jars of oil, and
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: whatsoe'er beside they have, who heap up goodly and glorious wealth.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Then thrust they in the strength of the ravening flame,
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: and from the sea that breath'd a wind set forth
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: by Thetis, to consume the giant frame of aas all
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the knight and all the morn burned neath the urgent
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: stress of that great wind, beside the ships that giant form,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: as when in Saladas by Zeus Levin was consumed beneath
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Floranacia went from all the isle. Smoke of his burning
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: rose alli like, as when Hercules, trapped by necess deadly guile,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: gave to devouring fire his living limbs. What time he
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: dared that awful deed, when growled all o itah as
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: he burned alive, and passed his soul into the air,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: leaving the man far famous to be numbered with the gods.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: When earth clothed o'er his toil tried mortal part so
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: huge amid the flames, all armor clad lay aass all
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: the joy of fight forgot, while a great multitude watching
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: thronged the sands. Glad were the Trojans, But the Archaeans grieved.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: But when that goodly frame by ravening fire, was all consumed,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: they quenched the pyre with wine. They gathered up the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: bones and reverently laid in a cold old in cascad
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: hard beside Rhetium's head land. Heaped they up a mound
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: measureless high. Then scatter'd they amidst the long ships, heavy
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: hearted for the man whom they honored even as Achilles.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: Then black knight, bearing unto all men, sleep upfloated, So
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: they break bread and lay down, waiting the child of
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the mist. Short was sleep broken by fitful starting through
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the dark, haunted by dread lest in the night the
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: foe should fall on them. Now Tullamun's sun was dead.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: End of chapter five.