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09 - How from his long lone exile returned to the war Philoctetes - The Fall of Troy · The Fall of Troy

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  Speaker 1: When ended was knight's darkness, and the dawn rose from
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  Speaker 1: the world's verge, and the wide hair glowed with splendor.
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  Speaker 1: Then did Argo's warrior's sons gaze off the plain, and lo,
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  Speaker 1: all cloudless, clear stood Ilium's towers. The marvel of yesterday
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  Speaker 1: seems strange dream. No thought the Trojans had of standing
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  Speaker 1: forth to fight without the wall. A great fear held
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  Speaker 1: them thralls the awful thought that yet alive was Pelia's
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  Speaker 1: glorious sun. But to the king of Heaven and Tenor,
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  Speaker 1: cried Zeus, Lord of Ida, and the starry sky. Hearkened
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  Speaker 1: to my prayer, Oh, turn back from our town, that battleier,
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  Speaker 1: murderous hearted man, be he Achilles, who hath not passed
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  Speaker 1: down to Hades or some other like to him. For
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  Speaker 1: now in heaven descended Priam's Burg by thousands of her people, perishing.
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  Speaker 1: Though respite cometh from calamity, murder, and havoc, evermore increase all, Father, Zeus,
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  Speaker 1: thou carest not though we be slaughtered of our foes,
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  Speaker 1: Thou helpest them for getting thy son god like darkness.
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  Speaker 1: But if this be the purpose of thine heart, that
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  Speaker 1: Arga shall destroy us wretchedly, now do it draw that
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  Speaker 1: out our agony and passionate prayer, he cried, and Zeus
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  Speaker 1: from heaven heartned and hastened. All the end of all
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  Speaker 1: which else he had delayed, he granted him this awful boon,
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  Speaker 1: that myriads of Troy's son should with their children perish.
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  Speaker 1: But that prayer he granted not to turn Achilles son
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  Speaker 1: back from the wide wayed town. Nay, all the more
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  Speaker 1: he enkindled him to war, for he would now give
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  Speaker 1: grace and glory to the neried queen. So purposed he
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  Speaker 1: of all gods the mightiest. But now between the city
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  Speaker 1: and the Hellespont, where Greeks and Trojans, burning men and
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  Speaker 1: steeds and battle slain, appalls the murderous strife. For Priam
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  Speaker 1: sent his herald Menotius forth to Agamemnon and the Achaean chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: asking a truce wherein to burn the dead, And they
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  Speaker 1: of reverence for the slain gavier, for that sueth not
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  Speaker 1: the dead. And when they had lain their slain on
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  Speaker 1: those close thronging pyres, then did the argis to their
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  Speaker 1: tense return, and unto Priam's gold abounding halls, the Trojans
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  Speaker 1: for urripulous sorrowing sore, for even as Priam's sons they
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  Speaker 1: honored him. Therefore, apart from all the other slain before
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  Speaker 1: the gate d'ardinian, where the streams of Edian Zanthos down
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  Speaker 1: from Ida flow fed by the reins of heaven, they
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  Speaker 1: buried him. All this. Achilles son the while, went forth
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  Speaker 1: to his sire's huge tomb. Out, pouring tears, he kissed
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  Speaker 1: the tall memorial pillar of the dead, and groaning, clasped
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  Speaker 1: it round. And thus he cried, Hell Father, though beneath
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  Speaker 1: the earth thou lie in hades halls, I shall forget THEE,
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  Speaker 1: not ho to have met THEE living mid the host
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  Speaker 1: then of each other, had our souls had joy then
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  Speaker 1: of her wealth, had we spoiled Ilium. But now thou
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  Speaker 1: hast not seen thy child, nor I seen THEE who
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  Speaker 1: yearned to look on THEE life. Yet though thou be
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  Speaker 1: afar amidst the dead, thy spear, thy son, have made
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  Speaker 1: thy foes who queil and Danians with exceeding joy, behold
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  Speaker 1: one like to THEE in stature, fame and deeds. He
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  Speaker 1: spake and wipe the hot tears from his face, and
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  Speaker 1: to his father's ships passed swiftly. Thence with him went
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  Speaker 1: Murmandon warriors two and ten, and white haired Phoenix followed
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  Speaker 1: on these woefully sighing. For the glorious dead night rose
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  Speaker 1: or earth. The stars flashed out in heaven. So these
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  Speaker 1: break red and slept till woke the dawn. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Greeks donned their armor, flashed afar its splendor up to
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  Speaker 1: the very firmament forth of the dates, and one great
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  Speaker 1: throng they poured, like snowflakes thickened fast, which drift adown
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  Speaker 1: heavily from the clouds in winter's cold. So stream they
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  Speaker 1: forth before the wall and rose thy dreads, shout, crone
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  Speaker 1: the deep earth beneath thy tramp. The Trojans heard that
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  Speaker 1: shout and saw the host and bottled. Crushed with fear
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  Speaker 1: were all their hearts for boding doom. For like a
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  Speaker 1: huge cloud seemed that throng of foes, But clashing arms
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  Speaker 1: they came plume. Then vast the dust rose beneath their feet.
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  Speaker 1: Then either did some god with hearty had thrilled the
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  Speaker 1: effabus heart and make it point of fear, or his
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  Speaker 1: own spirit spurred him on to fight to thrive with
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  Speaker 1: thrust of spear, that terrible host of Foemen from the
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  Speaker 1: city of his birth. So there in Troy he cried
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  Speaker 1: with heartening speech, All friends, be stout of heart to
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  Speaker 1: play them men, Remember all the agonies that war brings
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  Speaker 1: in the end, to them that yield to foes. She
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  Speaker 1: wrestled not for Alexander alone, nor Helen, but for home,
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  Speaker 1: for your own lives, for wives, for little ones, for parents, gray,
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  Speaker 1: for all the grace of life, for all ye have,
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  Speaker 1: for this dear land. Ho may she shroud me or
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  Speaker 1: slain in battle? Ere I see her lie neath Foeman's
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  Speaker 1: spears my country. I know not a better pang than
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  Speaker 1: this for hapless men. O be ye strong for battle? Forth,
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  Speaker 1: to fight with me and thrust this horror far away?
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  Speaker 1: Think not Achilles lived still to war against us Kim
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  Speaker 1: the ravening fire consumed some other archaean? Was it who
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  Speaker 1: so late enkindled them to war? Oh? Shame it were
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  Speaker 1: of men who fight for father land? Should fear Achilles self?
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  Speaker 1: Are any Greek beside? Let us not flight from war toil?
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  Speaker 1: Have we not endured much battle trattel? Hithertofore? What know
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  Speaker 1: ye not that two men sorely tried. Prosperity and joyants
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  Speaker 1: follow toil. So after scourging winds and ruining storm, Zeus
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  Speaker 1: springs to men a morn of palmy hair. After disease,
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  Speaker 1: new strength comes after war, peace, all things know times
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  Speaker 1: changeless law of change. Then all eager for war, they
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  Speaker 1: armed themselves in haste, all through the town vanclier of arms,
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  Speaker 1: as for grim fight, strong men of aathe their limbs.
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  Speaker 1: Here stood a wife, shuddering with dread of war, yet
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  Speaker 1: piling as she wept her husband's arms before his feet.
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  Speaker 1: There little children brought to a father his war gear
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  Speaker 1: with eager haste. And now his heart was wrung to
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  Speaker 1: hear their sobs. And now he smiled on those small ministers,
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  Speaker 1: and stronger waxed his heart's resolved to fight to the
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  Speaker 1: last gasps for these the near and dear yondered again
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  Speaker 1: with hands that had not lost old cunning. A gray
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  Speaker 1: father for the fray, girded a son and murmured once
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  Speaker 1: and again, dear boy. Healed out to no man in
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  Speaker 1: the war, and showed his son the old scars on
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  Speaker 1: his breast, proud memories of fights fought long ago. So
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  Speaker 1: when they all stood meld in battle gear. Forth of
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  Speaker 1: the gates they poured all eager soul for war against
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  Speaker 1: the chariots of the Greeks. There chariot's charged, the ranks
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  Speaker 1: of footmen pressed to meet the footmen of the foe.
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  Speaker 1: The earth rang to the tramp of onset peel the cheer.
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  Speaker 1: From man to man, swift close the fronts of war,
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  Speaker 1: cloud clasp their arms all round from either side, war
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  Speaker 1: cries were mingled in one awful roar. Swift winged full
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  Speaker 1: many a darted arrow flew from host to host, while
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  Speaker 1: clang the smithten shield meat, thrusting spears, the javelin pointed
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  Speaker 1: sword men hewed with axes, lightning down crimson armor ran
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  Speaker 1: with the blood of men, and all this wild. Troy's
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  Speaker 1: wives and daughters watched from high walls that trim battle
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  Speaker 1: of the strong. All trembled as they prayed for husbands, sons,
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  Speaker 1: and brothers. White haired sires amidst them sat and gazed,
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  Speaker 1: while anguish fear for sons devoured their hearts. But Helen
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  Speaker 1: and her bower abode amidst her maids there, held by
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  Speaker 1: Utter's shame. So without pause before the wall they fought,
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  Speaker 1: while death exalted o'er them deadly strife shrieked out a long,
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  Speaker 1: wild cry from host to host, with a blood of
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  Speaker 1: slain men. Thus became red mire. Here there fast fell
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  Speaker 1: the warriors mid the fray. Hen flew to efferdess, that
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  Speaker 1: out of your tear of nestor Heposis' son, from that
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  Speaker 1: high card down fell he amidst the dead, fear sees
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  Speaker 1: his lord lest while his hands were covered with the reins,
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  Speaker 1: he too, by Priam's strong son, might be slain melanthegus
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  Speaker 1: marked his plate swift he sprang upon the car. He
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  Speaker 1: urged the horses, arm shaking the reins, colding them with
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  Speaker 1: his spear. Seeing the scourge was lost. But Priam's son
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  Speaker 1: left these and plunged them in a throng of foes.
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  Speaker 1: For there upon many he brought the day of doom.
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  Speaker 1: For like a ruining tempest, on his storm, through reeling ranks,
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  Speaker 1: his mighty hands struck down foes numberless. The plain was
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  Speaker 1: heaped with dead, as when a woodman on the long
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  Speaker 1: ridged hills plunges amid the forest deeps and hues with
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  Speaker 1: might and main and fells sap laden trees to make
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  Speaker 1: him store of charcoal for the heaps of billets overturfed
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  Speaker 1: and set afire. The chumps on all sides fallen, strew
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  Speaker 1: the slopes. While o'er his work the man exulteth. So
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  Speaker 1: before the iphabus swift death, dealing hands it hates the Achaeans,
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  Speaker 1: each on other fell, arging. Lights of Troy swept over some,
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  Speaker 1: some fled his santal stream. The iformus chased into the
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  Speaker 1: flood yet more, and slew and slew, as when on
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  Speaker 1: fish abounding hellaspontstrand the fishermen, hard straining, drag her net
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  Speaker 1: forth of the depths to land. But while it trails
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  Speaker 1: yet through the sea, hun leaps amid the waves, grasping
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  Speaker 1: at hand the sinuous headed spear to deal the swordfish death.
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  Speaker 1: And here and there, fast as he meets them, slays them,
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  Speaker 1: and with blood the waves are reddened. So was handful streams,
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  Speaker 1: and purpled by his hands, and choked with dead, yet
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  Speaker 1: not without sore lost. The Trojans fought for all this
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  Speaker 1: while to Aad's fierce heart, son of other ranks made
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  Speaker 1: Havoc Fretty's gaze, rejoicing in her son's son with a
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  Speaker 1: joy as great as was her grief for Achilles slain,
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  Speaker 1: for a great host. Beneath his spear were hurled down
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  Speaker 1: to the dust. Steeds, warriors slaughter blent, and still he chased,
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  Speaker 1: and still he slew. He slowed her Maides war renowned,
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  Speaker 1: who on his steed bore down on him. But of
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  Speaker 1: his horsemanship's small prophet one the bright spear pierced and
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  Speaker 1: threw from navel unto spine, and all his bowels gushed out,
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  Speaker 1: and deadly doom laid hold on him, even as he
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  Speaker 1: fell beside his horse's feet ascanius and owen hopes. Next
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  Speaker 1: he slew under the fifth rib of one he drave
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  Speaker 1: his spear, the other stabbed beneath a throat, where a
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  Speaker 1: wound bringeth shrest doom to man whom so he met.
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  Speaker 1: Besides he slew the names. What man could tell of
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  Speaker 1: all that day of neapalamis tide. Never his limbs waxed,
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  Speaker 1: weary as some rawny laborer with strong hands toiling in
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  Speaker 1: a fruitful field. The livelong day rains down to earth
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  Speaker 1: the fruit of olives. Swiftly beating with his pole, and
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  Speaker 1: with the downfall covers all the ground. So fast fell
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  Speaker 1: neath his hands. The thronging foe. Elsewhere did Agamemnon, tidiest Son,
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  Speaker 1: and other chieftains of the Danian's toil with fury in
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  Speaker 1: the fight, yet never quell the mighty man of Troy.
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  Speaker 1: With heart and soul, they also fought, and ever stayed
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  Speaker 1: from flight, such as gave back, But many heeded not
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  Speaker 1: their chiefs, but fled, cowered by the Achaean's might. Now,
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  Speaker 1: at last Achilles' strong son marked how fest besides Commander's outfall,
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  Speaker 1: Greeks were perishing those troyward fleeing foes whom he had followed,
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  Speaker 1: slaying left he now and bad A thomadon thither drive,
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  Speaker 1: where hosts were falling of the Achaeans. Straight way he
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  Speaker 1: hearkened and scorns the steeds immortal on to that wild fray.
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  Speaker 1: Parrying their lord, they flew swiftly on the battle Highway's
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  Speaker 1: peeted with death. As Ari's chariot borne to murderous war
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  Speaker 1: fares forth and round his awn rush quakes the ground
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  Speaker 1: along the gods breast clashed, celestial arms out flashing fire,
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  Speaker 1: So charged achilles Son against the Iphabus. Clouds of dust
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  Speaker 1: upsword about his horse's feet Atomadon marked the Trojan chief
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  Speaker 1: and knew him to his lord's street, where he named
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  Speaker 1: that hero war rehelnd, my king. This is the Iphabus ray,
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  Speaker 1: the man who from thy father fled in fear. Some
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  Speaker 1: god off fiend with courage fills him. Now nor answered
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  Speaker 1: near Palamus, save to bid drive on the steed jet
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  Speaker 1: faster that with speed he might have heard trimmed death
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  Speaker 1: from perishing friends. But when to each other, now nigh
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  Speaker 1: fol they drew. The Iphabus, despite his battle lust, stayed
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  Speaker 1: as a ravening fire stays when he beats water. He bottled,
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  Speaker 1: seeing Achilles steeds and a gigantic son you just his sire,
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  Speaker 1: and his heart wavered, choosing now to flee and now
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  Speaker 1: to face that hero man to man has When a
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  Speaker 1: mountain bore from his young brood chases the jackals, then
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  Speaker 1: the lion leaps from hidden ambush into view the boar
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  Speaker 1: halts and his furious onset hove to advance these to retreat,
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  Speaker 1: while foam his jaws about his wetted tusks so halted
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  Speaker 1: priam sons, car steeds and car perplexed, while quivered his
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  Speaker 1: hands about the hands, shouted Achilles son ho priam son,
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  Speaker 1: why thus so mad to smite those weaker argives who
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  Speaker 1: have feared thy path and fled man on onset. So
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  Speaker 1: thou deemest thyself har mightiest, if thine heart be brave,
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  Speaker 1: indeed of my spear, Now make trial in the strife
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  Speaker 1: on rushy as a lion against the stag porne by
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  Speaker 1: the steed and chariot of his sire, and now fall
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  Speaker 1: soon his lance had slain his foe, him and his
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  Speaker 1: chariot here. But Feverus poured a dense cloud round him
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  Speaker 1: from the viewless heights of heaven, and snatched him from
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  Speaker 1: the deadly fray, and set him down in Troy amid
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  Speaker 1: the rout of fleeing trojans. So did Pelea's son stamp,
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  Speaker 1: but at the air, and loud he cried, dog, thou
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  Speaker 1: escape my wrath. No might have thine save thee, though
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  Speaker 1: ne'er so fain. Some god cast knights fail are thee
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  Speaker 1: and snatch thee from thy death. Then Chrono's son dispersed
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  Speaker 1: that dense dark cloud missed like a thinned and vanished
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  Speaker 1: into air straightway. The plane and all the land were
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  Speaker 1: seen then far away about the sky and gait. He
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  Speaker 1: saw the Trojans, seeming like his, he sped against them.
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  Speaker 1: They at his coming quelled his shipmen tremble when a
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  Speaker 1: wild wave bears down on their park, wind heaved until
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  Speaker 1: it swings broad mounted high above them, when the sea
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  Speaker 1: is mad with tempest. So as on he came terror
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  Speaker 1: clad all those Trojans as a cloak. The while he shouted,
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  Speaker 1: cheering on his men. Here friends fell, fall your hearts
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  Speaker 1: with dauntless courage, the strength that well the seemeth mighty
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  Speaker 1: men who thirst to win them glorious victory, to win
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  Speaker 1: renown from battle's tumult. Come, brave hearts, now strive, we
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  Speaker 1: even beyond our strength, till we smite Troy's proud city,
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  Speaker 1: till we win our hearts desire foul shame. If were
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  Speaker 1: to abide long, deedless here and strengthless womanlike here, I
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  Speaker 1: be called war blencher. Let me die. Then into ares
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  Speaker 1: work Their spirits flamed town on. The Trojans charged they yea,
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  Speaker 1: and these fought with high courage. The city now and
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  Speaker 1: now from wall and gate towers never lulled the rage
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  Speaker 1: of war. While Trojan hearts were hot to hurl the
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  Speaker 1: foeman back and the strong Greeks to smite the town.
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  Speaker 1: Grim Havoc compassed all, then, eager for the trojan's help,
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  Speaker 1: swooped down out of Olympus, poked the pelt with clouds
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  Speaker 1: the sun of Litho, mighty rushing winds bare him in
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  Speaker 1: golden armor, clad and gleamed with lightning. Splendor of his
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  Speaker 1: descent the long highways of air. His quimmer clashed, woud
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  Speaker 1: rang the welkin the earth re echoed. As he set
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  Speaker 1: his tireless feet by Xanthos peeled his shout treadly with courage,
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  Speaker 1: filling them of Troy, scaring their foes from biding the
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  Speaker 1: red fray. But of all this, some mighty shaker of
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  Speaker 1: the earth was where he breathed into the fainting Greek's
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  Speaker 1: fierce pallor, and the fight white, murderous through those immortals.
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  Speaker 1: Clashing wills then tied hosts numberless on either side, and
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  Speaker 1: Apollo thought the smite of Chilles son in the same
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  Speaker 1: place where Este smote his tire. But birds of boding
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  Speaker 1: streamed to left to stay his mood, and other signs
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  Speaker 1: from heaven were sent. Yet was his wrath not minded
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  Speaker 1: to obey these portents swiftly drew Earthshaker nigh in mis
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  Speaker 1: celestial cloak about his feet quick the dark earth, as
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  Speaker 1: came the sea king on then to stay Phoebe's hand,
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  Speaker 1: he cried to him, refrain thy path, Achilles, giant son, slay,
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  Speaker 1: not Olympus Lord himself shall be wroth for his death,
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  Speaker 1: and bitter grief shall light on me and all the
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  Speaker 1: sea gods as Erstwhile for achilles sake, nay, get thee
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  Speaker 1: back to highth celestial, lest thou kindle me to wrath.
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  Speaker 1: And so I cleave a sudden chasm, and Earth and
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  Speaker 1: Ilium and all her walls go down to darkness. Thine
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  Speaker 1: own soul were vexed there. Hat then, overawed by the
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  Speaker 1: brother of his tire, and fearing for Troy's fate and
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  Speaker 1: for her folk to Heaven, went back Apollo to the
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  Speaker 1: sea Poseidon, for the sons of men fought on and
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  Speaker 1: slew and strife and karnate clothing. Watched at last by
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  Speaker 1: Calcus council, Achaea's sons drew back to the ships and
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  Speaker 1: put them from the thought of battle, seeing it was
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  Speaker 1: not for ordained that Ilium should fall into the might
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  Speaker 1: of war wise Philoptitis came to aid the Achaean host.
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  Speaker 1: This had the prophet learned from birds of prosperous omen,
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  Speaker 1: or had read in hearts of victims. Wise in prophecy.
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  Speaker 1: Lore was he, and like a god new things to
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  Speaker 1: be trusting in him. The sons of Atreus stayed awhile
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  Speaker 1: the war and unto Lemnos, land of stately mansions. They
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  Speaker 1: sent Tideus son and battle staunch Odysseus over sea, fast
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  Speaker 1: by the fire God's city sped. They on over the
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  Speaker 1: broad flood of the Aegean Sea, to vine clad Lemnos,
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  Speaker 1: where in far off days the wives wreak murderous vengere
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  Speaker 1: on their lords in fierce path that they gave them
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  Speaker 1: not their due, but touched beside their handmade thralls of Thrace,
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  Speaker 1: the captors of their spears, when they had laid waste
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  Speaker 1: the land of warrior Thracians. Then these wives their hearts
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  Speaker 1: with fiery jealousies, fever filled, murdered in every home, with
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  Speaker 1: merciless hands their husbands. No compassion would they show to
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  Speaker 1: their own wedded lords. Such madness shakes the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: man or woman when it burns with jealousies fever stung
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  Speaker 1: by torturing pangs. So with souls filled with desperate hardihood,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: in one night did they slaughter all their lords, and
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: on a widowed nation rose the sun to hallow Lemnos
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: came those heroes. Twain they marked the rocky cave where
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: lay the sun of princely pooyas horror came on them
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: when they beheld the hero of their quest, groaning with
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: bitter pangs on the hard earth, lying with many feathers
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: round him strewn, and others round his body. Rudely so
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  Speaker 1: into a cloak, a scream from winter's cold, for oft
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: as famine stung him, would shoot the shaft that missed
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  Speaker 1: no fowl his aim had doom'd. There flesh he ate,
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  Speaker 1: their feathers vestured him, and there lay herbs and healing leaves,
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  Speaker 1: the which spread on his deadly wound assuades its pangs.
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  Speaker 1: While tangled elflocks hung about his head. He seemed a
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  Speaker 1: wild beast that hath set its foot prowling by night
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  Speaker 1: upon a hidden trap, And so hath been constrained in
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  Speaker 1: agony to bite with fierce teeth through the prisoned limb,
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  Speaker 1: ere it could win back to its cave and there
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in hunger and torturing pains it languisheth. So in that
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  Speaker 1: wide cave, suffering crushed the man, and all his frame
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  Speaker 1: was wasted, But but skin covered his bones unashin'. There
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  Speaker 1: he crouched with famine, haggard cheeks, with sunken eyes, clearing
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  Speaker 1: his misery neath cavernous brows. Never his groaning ceased for evermore,
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  Speaker 1: the ulcerous black wound, eating to the bone, festered with
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: thrills of agonizing pain, as when a beetling cliff by
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  Speaker 1: seething seas high buffeted, is carved and under scooped for
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  Speaker 1: all its stubborn strength by tireless waves, till scourged by winds,
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  Speaker 1: and last by tempest flewls the sea into deep caves.
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  Speaker 1: Hath gnawed its peace, so greater neath his foot grew
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  Speaker 1: evermore the festering wound telt when the envenomed fangs tear
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: him of that fell water snake, which men say deal
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: with ghastly wounds, incurable when the hot sun hath parched
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it as it crawls over the sands. And so that
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: mightiest man lay faint and wasted his cureless pain. And
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: from the ulcerous wound. I streamed to earth, fetid corruption,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: fouling all the floor of that wide cave, a marvel
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to be heard of men unborn. Beside his stony bed
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: lay a long quiver full of arrows, some for hunting,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: some to smite his foes withal with deadly venom of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that fell water snink with these besmeared before it nigh
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to his hand lay the great bow, with curving tips
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of horn, wrought by the mighty hands of Hercules. Now,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: when that solitary spied these twain draw nigh to his cave,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: he sprang to his bow. He lath a deadly arrow
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  Speaker 1: on the string. For now fierce memory of his wrongs
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: awoke against these who had left him years agone in pain,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: groaning on the desolate sea shore. Yet and his heart's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: stern will had he swiftly fought. But even as upon
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: that godlike train he gazed Athena caused his bitter wrath
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: to melt away, then drew the nigh to him with
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: looks of sad compassion, and sat down on either hand
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: beside him in the cave, and of his deadly wound
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and grievous pangs, asked and he told them all his sufferings,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and they spake hope and comfort. And they said, thy
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: woeful wound, thine anger wish shall be healed, if thou
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: but come with us to Achaea's host, the host that
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: now is sorrowing after thee, with all its kings, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: no man of them all was cause of thine affliction.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But the fates, the cruel ones, whom none that walk
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  Speaker 1: the earth escape. But ay they visit hapless men unseen,
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  Speaker 1: and day by day with pitiless hearts. Now they afflict men.
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  Speaker 1: Now again exalt you, honor. None knows why, for all
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  Speaker 1: the woes and all the joys of men, do these
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  Speaker 1: devise after their pleasure. Hart Then he sat to Odysseus
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and to God like Diomede, and all the hoarded wrath
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: for old and wrongs, and all the torturing rage melted
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: away straight to the strand dull, thundering, and the ship
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: laughing for joy. They bare him with his bow. There
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: wast they all his body, and hath foul wound with sponges,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and with plenteous water bathed, So was his soul refreshed.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Then hastened they and made meat ready for the famished. Man,
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  Speaker 1: and the galley supped with him. Then came the palmy night,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: and sleep slid down on them till rose the dawn.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: They carried by the strand of sea girt Lemnos. But
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: with the day spring cast, the hawsers loose and heaved
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the anchor stones out of the deep. Athena sent a
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: breeze blowing behind the galley caper. Proud, they strained the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: sail with either stern sheet taught see where they pointed
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the stout girded ship or the broad flood she leapt
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: before the wind broken to right and left the dark
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: waves side and seething. All around was hoary foam, while
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: thronging dolphins raced on either hand, flashing along the paths
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of silver sea, full soon to fish fraught Hellespont they came,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and the far stretching ships clad were the Greeks to
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: see the long fourfaces. Forth the ships with joy they stepped,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: and Peoea's valiant sun. On those two heroes leaned thin
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: wasted hands who bare him painfully halting to the shore,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: staying his weight upon her gauney arms. As seems mid
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: mountain brakes an oak or pine by strength of wood cutter,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: half hewn through, which for a little stands on what
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: was left of smooth trunk by him who hewed thereat
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: hard by the roots, that its slow smoldering wood might
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: yield him pitch. Now, like one in pain, it groans
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: in weakness, borne down by the wind, it is up
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: stayed upon its leafy boughs, which from the earth bare
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: up its helpless weight. So, by pain unendurable, bowed down,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: he lean'd on those brave heroes, and was borne unto
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the war host. Pen beheld and all compassionated that great archer,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: crushed by anguish of his hurt. But one drew near Polylirius,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: god like in his power to heal, swifter than thought,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: he made him whole, and sail'd for deftly on the wound.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: He spread his solves, calling on his physician father's name,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And soon the Achaean shouted all for joy, all praising
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: with one ye Ascalapia's sun. Lovingly they bathed him, and
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: with oil anointed all his heaviness of cheer and misery,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: vanish'd by the immortal's will, And glad at heart were
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: all that looked on him, And from affliction he awoke
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to joy over the bloodless face. The flush of health glowed,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and for wretched weakness, mighty strength thrilled through him goodly,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: and great waxed all his limbs, as when a field
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: of corn revives again, which erste had drooped by rains
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: of ruining storm, down, beaten flat, but by warm summer
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: winds requickened o'er the labor'd land its smiles, So Philoptitus asked,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: while wasted frame was all requickened in the galleys hold
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he seem'd to have left all cares that crushed his soul,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And atrious sons beheld him marveling as one re risen
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: from the dead. It seemed the works of hands immortal,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and indeed so it was verily as their hearts divined.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: For twas the glorious Trito born, that shed's stature and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: grace upon him. Suddenly he seemed as one of old
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: mid argive men. He stood before calamity struck him down.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Then unto wealthy Agamemnon's tent, did all their mightiest men
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: bring me away as sudden and set him chief and
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: honor at the feast, extolling him, when all with meat
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and drink were filled, spake Agamemnon, Lord of Spears, dear friend,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: since by the will of Heaven our souls were once
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: perverted that in sea girt Lennos, we left thee harbor,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: not within thy heart fierce wrath for this, by the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: blessed gods constrained, we did it, And I trow the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: immortal's will to bring much evil on us, bereft of
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: thee who art of all men skillfullest to quell with
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: shafts of death, all foes that face thee in fight.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: For all the tangled paths of human life, by land
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: and sea, are by the will of fate, hid from
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: our eyes. In many and devious tracks, are cleft apart,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: in wandering mazes. Lost along them, men by fortune's dooming
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: drift like unto leaves that drive before the wind. Oft
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: on an evil path, the good man's feet stumble. The
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: brave finds not a prosperous path. And none of earth
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: born men can shun the fates, and of his own will,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: none can choose his way. So then doth it behoove
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the wise of heart, though on a troublous track, the
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: winds of fate sweep him away to suffer and be strong.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Since we were blinded then and aired herein with rich gifts,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: will we make amends to thee hereafter, when we take
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the stately towers of Troy, but now receive thou handmaiden,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: seven fleet steeds two score victor's in a chariot race,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: and trypods twelve. Wherein thine heart may joy through all
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: thy days, and always in my tent shall rooil honor
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: at the feast be thine. He spake and gave the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: hero those fair gifts. Then answered pooyas mighty hearted son, friend,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: I forgive thee freely, and all beside who so against
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: me haply hath transgressed. I know how good men's minds
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: sometimes be warped. Nor meet is it than one be obdurate? Ever,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and nurse mean Panker's sternest wrath must yield anon unto
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the melting mood. Now pass we to our rest, for
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: better is sleep than feasting. Late for him who longs
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to fight, he spake and rose and came to his
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: comrade's tent. Then swiftly for their war fame King, they
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: tight the couch while laugh their hearts for very joy.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Gladly he laid him down to sleep till dawn. So
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: pass the night divine, till flush the hills and the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: sun's light, and men a hope to toil. Then all
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: athirst for war. The argiving men can wet the spear
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: smooth shafted, or the dart or javelin, And they break
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the bread of dawn, and foddered all their horses. Then
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to thee spake by oeas Sun, with battle kiddling speech. Up,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Let us make ready for the war. Let no man
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: linger mid the galleys. Yea, the glorious walls of Iliums,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: stately towered, be shattered, and her palaces be burned. Then
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: at his words, each heart and spirit clothed, They dorned
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: their armor. They grasped their shields. Forth of the ships
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: in one used mass. They poured, arrayed in pull hide, bucklers,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: ashen spears, and talont crested helms, through all their ranks,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: shoulder to shoulder. They hearched, thou hadst seen no gap
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: TwixT man and man. As on they charged so close
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: they thronged, so tense was their array. End of Chapter
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  Speaker 1: nine