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12 - How the Wooden Horse was fashioned, and brought into Try by her people - The Fall of Troy · The Fall of Troy

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  Speaker 1: When round the walls of Troy, the Danian host had
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  Speaker 1: borne much travail, and yet the end was not by
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  Speaker 1: Calcus then assembled with the chiefs, for his heart was
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  Speaker 1: instructed by the hest of Phoebus, by the flight of birds,
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  Speaker 1: the stars, and all the signs that speak to men
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  Speaker 1: the will of Heaven. So he to that assembly cried
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  Speaker 1: no longer toil in leaguer of yon walls. Some other counsel.
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  Speaker 1: Let your hearts devise some stratagem to help the host
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  Speaker 1: and us. For here, but yesterday I saw a sign.
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  Speaker 1: A falcon chased a dove, and she hard prest entered
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  Speaker 1: a cleft of the rock, and chafing. He tarried long time,
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  Speaker 1: hard by that rift, but she abode in convert nursing
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  Speaker 1: still his wrath. He hid him in a bush, forth
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  Speaker 1: darted she in folly, deeming him afar. He swoop'd and
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  Speaker 1: to the hapless dove dealt wretched death. Therefore by force
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  Speaker 1: assay we not to smite Troy, but let cunning strat
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  Speaker 1: of hell he spake. But no man's wit might find
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  Speaker 1: a way to escape their grievous travel as they sought
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  Speaker 1: to find a remedy, till they have He's son discerned
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  Speaker 1: it of his wisdom, and he spake friend in high
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  Speaker 1: honor held of the heavenly ones. If doomed, it be
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  Speaker 1: indeed that Priam's bird by dial must fall before the
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  Speaker 1: war toward Greeks. A great horse. Let us fashion in
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  Speaker 1: the which are mightiest, shall take ambush. Let the host
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  Speaker 1: burn all their tents and sail from hence away to Tenedos.
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  Speaker 1: So the Trojans, when their towers gazing, shall stream forth
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  Speaker 1: fearless to the plain. Let some brave man, unknown to
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  Speaker 1: any in Troy, with a stout heart, abide without the
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  Speaker 1: horse crouching beneath its shadow. Who shall say, are Chao's
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  Speaker 1: lords of might exceeding feign safe to win home? Made
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  Speaker 1: this their offering for safe return an image, who appease
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of Palace for her image stolen from Troy.
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  Speaker 1: And to this story he shall stand how long soe'er
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  Speaker 1: they question him, until though never so relentless they believe
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  Speaker 1: and drag it their own doom within the town. Then
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  Speaker 1: shall war's signal unto us be given to them at
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  Speaker 1: sea by the sudden flash of torch, to the ambush,
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  Speaker 1: by the cry come forth the horse when unsuspecting sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The sons of Troy he spake, and all men praised him.
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  Speaker 1: Most of all extolled him, Calcus, that such marvelous dial
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  Speaker 1: he put into a k and heart to be for
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  Speaker 1: them assurance of triumph. But for Troy ruin. And to
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  Speaker 1: those battle lords he cried, let your heart seek none
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  Speaker 1: other stratagem. Friends to war strong, Odysseus reed give ear
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  Speaker 1: his wise thoughts, shall not miss accomplishment. Yea our desire.
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  Speaker 1: Even now the gods fulfill hark, for new tokens come
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  Speaker 1: from the unseen lo thereon high, crash through the firmament.
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  Speaker 1: Zeos's thunder and lightning, see where birds to right tart past,
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  Speaker 1: and scream with long resounding cry, go too no more
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  Speaker 1: and endless, leaguer of Troy linger we hard necessity fills
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  Speaker 1: the foe with desperate courage that makes cowards brave. For
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  Speaker 1: then are men most dangerous when they stake their lives
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  Speaker 1: at utter recklessness of death. As battle Now they all
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  Speaker 1: his sons of Troy, all round their burg, mad with
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  Speaker 1: lust of fight, But cried Achilles, battle eager son, Calcus.
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  Speaker 1: Brave men meet face to face their foes, who soak
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  Speaker 1: behind their walls, and fight from towers. Are knitterings, hearts
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  Speaker 1: palsied with base fear, hencewithal thought of While in Stratagem
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  Speaker 1: the Great War, Travellus spears beseems true heroes best in
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  Speaker 1: battle of a brave but answer made him lay at
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  Speaker 1: his seed, bold hearted child of all, I say hat
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  Speaker 1: his son this as beseems a hero, princely and brave,
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  Speaker 1: thoughtlessly trusting in thy strength, Thou sayest yet fine, invincible
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  Speaker 1: Sire's unquelling might have veiled not to smite Priam's wealthy bird.
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  Speaker 1: Nor we for all our trapail nay with speed as
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  Speaker 1: counseleth Calcus, tow we to the ships, and fashion we
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  Speaker 1: the horse by a paious hands, who in the woodwright's
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  Speaker 1: craft is chiefest far of our gives. For Athena taught
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  Speaker 1: his lore, then all their mightiest men gave ear to him,
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  Speaker 1: save Twain, fierce hearted near Ptolemus, and Philoptitus mighty sould,
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  Speaker 1: For these were still insatiate for the bitter fray, still
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  Speaker 1: longed for turmoil of the fight. They bare their own
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  Speaker 1: folk pair up against that giant wall. What things soe'er
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  Speaker 1: for all's assaults of Hell in hope to lay that
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  Speaker 1: stately fortress low, seeing Heaven's decree had brought them both
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  Speaker 1: to war. Yea, they had happily accomplished all their will,
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  Speaker 1: But from the skies who showed his wrath, he shook
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  Speaker 1: the earth beneath their feet, and all the air shuddered
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  Speaker 1: as down before those heroes twain he hurled his thunderbolt.
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  Speaker 1: Why echoes crashed through all Dardania, unto fierce straightway, turned
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  Speaker 1: their bold hearts and forgot their might, and calcus councils
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  Speaker 1: crudgingly obeyed. So with the urguides came they to the
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  Speaker 1: ships in reverence for the seer who spake from Zeus
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  Speaker 1: or Phoebus, and they obeyed him utterly. What time round
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  Speaker 1: splendor kindled heavens, the stars from east to west, far
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  Speaker 1: flashing wheel, And when man doth forget his toil in
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  Speaker 1: that still hour, Athena left the high mansion of the Blessed,
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  Speaker 1: clothed in her shape as a maiden tender flesh'd, and
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  Speaker 1: came to ships and host o'er the head of braver
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  Speaker 1: Pius stood She in his dream and pad him build
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  Speaker 1: a horse of tree. Herself would labor in his labor,
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  Speaker 1: and herself stand by his side to the work in
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  Speaker 1: kindling him. Hearing the goddess word with a glad laugh,
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  Speaker 1: he leapt from careless sleep. Right well he knew the
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  Speaker 1: immortal one celestial. Now his heart could hold no thought beside.
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  Speaker 1: His mind was fixed upon the wondrous work, and through
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  Speaker 1: his soul march'd marshal'd each device of craftsmanship. When rose
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  Speaker 1: the dawn and thrust back kindly knight to Arabis, and
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  Speaker 1: through the firmament stream'd glad glory. Then a Pius told
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  Speaker 1: his dream to eager Argives all he saw and heard,
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  Speaker 1: and hearkening joyed they with exceeding joy, straightway to tall
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  Speaker 1: tressed IRA's leafy glades, the sons of Atreus sent swift messengers.
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  Speaker 1: These laid the axe unto the forest pines, and hewed
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  Speaker 1: the great trees. To their smiting rang the echoing glens.
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  Speaker 1: On those far stretching hills, all bare of undergrowth, the
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  Speaker 1: high peaks rose opened, Their glades were not, as in
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  Speaker 1: time passed haunted a beast. Their dry tree trunks rose,
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  Speaker 1: hooing the weeds. Even these the achaanes hewed with axes,
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  Speaker 1: and in haste they pare them down from those shagged
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  Speaker 1: mountain heights to hellaspont shores. Strained with a strenuous spirit
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  Speaker 1: at the work. Young men and mules and all the
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  Speaker 1: people toiled, each of his task, obeying a p as
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  Speaker 1: hest for with the keen steel, some were hewing beams,
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  Speaker 1: some measuring planks, and some with axes lopped branches away
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  Speaker 1: from tust as. Yet unsong, each wrought his several work.
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  Speaker 1: The peus first fashioned the feet of that great horse
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  Speaker 1: of wood. The belly, next he shaped, and over this
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  Speaker 1: molded the pack and the great loins behind, the throat
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  Speaker 1: in front, and rigs the towering neck with waving mane.
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  Speaker 1: The crested head he wrought, the streaming tell, the ears,
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  Speaker 1: the loosened eyes, all that of lifelike horses have so
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  Speaker 1: grew like a live thing, that more than human work.
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  Speaker 1: For a God gave to a man that wondrous craft.
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  Speaker 1: And in three days, by palace decree finished was all
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  Speaker 1: rejoice there at the host of hargoes, parveling how the
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  Speaker 1: would express metal and speed of foot. Yeay seemed to
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  Speaker 1: neigh God like a pea. Then uplifted hands to Pallas,
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  Speaker 1: and for that huge horse he prayed here great soul, Goddess,
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  Speaker 1: bless thine horse and me. He spake Athena rich in
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  Speaker 1: council heard and made his work a marvel to all
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  Speaker 1: men which saw heard its fame in days to be.
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  Speaker 1: But while the Danians are apaious, work joyed, and their
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  Speaker 1: routed foes within the walls tarried and shrank from death
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  Speaker 1: and pitiless doom. Then when imperious Zeus, far from the gods,
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  Speaker 1: had gone to Ocean's stream and Tetus caves, strife rose
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  Speaker 1: between the immortals. Heart with heart was set in variants.
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  Speaker 1: Riding on the blast of winds from heaven to Earth.
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  Speaker 1: They swooped, the air crashed round them, lightning down by
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  Speaker 1: Santha's stream. Arrayed, they stood against each other. These were
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  Speaker 1: the Achaeans. For the Trojans, those and all their souls
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  Speaker 1: were thrilled with lust of war. There gathered to the
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  Speaker 1: lords of the wide sea. These and their wrath were
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  Speaker 1: eager to destroy the horse of Tile and all the
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  Speaker 1: ships and those fair Ilium. But all contriving fate held them.
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  Speaker 1: Therefrom and turned their hearts to strife against each other.
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  Speaker 1: Aries to the fray rose first, and on Athila rushed
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  Speaker 1: There I fell each on other clashed round their limbs,
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  Speaker 1: the golden arms celestialists, they charged round them. The wide
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  Speaker 1: sea thundered, the dark earth quakedneath their mortal feet. Rang
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  Speaker 1: from them all far peeling battle shouts. That awful cry
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  Speaker 1: rolled up to the broad heaven, and down even to Hades.
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  Speaker 1: Fathomless abyss tremble the Titans. There in the depths of gloom.
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  Speaker 1: IRA's long ridges sighed, sobbed, clamorous streams of ever flowing rivers,
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  Speaker 1: croned ravines, far furrowed argive ships, and Priam's towers. Men
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  Speaker 1: feared not for naught. They knew of all that strife.
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  Speaker 1: By Heaven's decree. Then her high piaqued the God's hands
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  Speaker 1: right from Midas crest and hurled against each other. But
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  Speaker 1: like crumbling sands shivered, They fell round those invincible limbs,
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  Speaker 1: shattered to small dust. But the mind of Zeus, at
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  Speaker 1: the utmost verge of Earth was whereof all straight left
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  Speaker 1: the ocean stream and to wide Heaven ascended charioted upon
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  Speaker 1: the winds the east, the north, the west wind, and
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  Speaker 1: the south. For iris rainbow plume led neath the yoke
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  Speaker 1: of his eternal car, that stormy team, the car which
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  Speaker 1: timed the immortal frame for him of adamant, with never
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  Speaker 1: wearying hands, so came he to Olympus giant ridge. His
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  Speaker 1: wrath shook all the firmament, as crashed from east to west.
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  Speaker 1: His thunders lightnings cleaned thick and fastest thunderbolt poured to
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  Speaker 1: earth and flamed the limitless welcome terror fell upon the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of those immortals. Quake the limbs of all aye,
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  Speaker 1: deathless though they were, then themis trembling for them. Swift
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  Speaker 1: as fort let down through clouds, and came with speed
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  Speaker 1: to them. For in the strife she only had no part,
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  Speaker 1: and stood between the fighters, and she cried forbear the conflict. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: when Zeus is wroth, it ill beseems that everlasting God
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  Speaker 1: should fight for men's sake, creatures of a day. Else
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  Speaker 1: shall ye be all suddenly destroyed. For Zeus will tear
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  Speaker 1: off all the hills and hurl upon you sons nor
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  Speaker 1: daughters will he spare but perry neath one ruin of
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  Speaker 1: shattered earth, all no escape shall ye find that's to
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  Speaker 1: light in horror of darkness. Prisoned evermore, treading zeus menace,
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  Speaker 1: they gave heed to her from strife refrained and cast
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  Speaker 1: away their and were made one in peace and amity.
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  Speaker 1: Some heavenward sword, some plunged into the sea on earth stayed,
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  Speaker 1: some amid the Archaean host spake in his subtlety clarity,
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  Speaker 1: son O, valorous hearted lords of the argive host, Now
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  Speaker 1: prove in time of need, what men ye be, how passing, strong,
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  Speaker 1: how flawless brave? The hour is this for desperate enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: Now with hearts, heroic enter ye and yon, carve and horse,
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  Speaker 1: so to attain the goal of this stern war for
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  Speaker 1: better it is by stratagem and craft to destroy this city,
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  Speaker 1: for whose sake hither we came, and still our suffering
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  Speaker 1: many afflictions far from our own land. Come then, and
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  Speaker 1: let your hearts be stout and strong. For he who,
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  Speaker 1: in stress a fight hath turned to bay and snatched
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  Speaker 1: a desperate courage from despair oft though the weaker slays
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  Speaker 1: a mightier foe, For courage, which is all men's glory,
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  Speaker 1: makes the heart great. Come, Then set the ambush he
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  Speaker 1: which be our mightiest, and the rest shall go to
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  Speaker 1: Tannado's hallowedbergh, and there abide until our foes have held
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  Speaker 1: within their walls us with the horse, as deeming that
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  Speaker 1: they bring a gift unto Tritonus, some brave man, one
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  Speaker 1: whom the Trojans know not. Yet we lack to harden
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  Speaker 1: his heart is steel, and to abide near the horse.
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  Speaker 1: Let that man bear in mind heedfully whatsoe'er I said her,
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  Speaker 1: while and let none other thwart be in his heart,
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  Speaker 1: lest to our foe our counsel be reveal'd. Then, when
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  Speaker 1: all others feared, a man far famed made answer, signon
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  Speaker 1: part of destiny, to bring the great work to accomplishment. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: with worship, all men look'd on him, the loyal of heart,
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  Speaker 1: as in their midst. He spake Odysseus, and all ye
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  Speaker 1: are Caayan chiefs, this work for which ye crave, while
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  Speaker 1: I perform yea though they torture me, though into fire
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  Speaker 1: living they thrust me. For mine heart is fixed not
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  Speaker 1: to escape, but tie my hands of foes, except I
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  Speaker 1: crowned with glory or desire. Stoutly he spake right glad
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  Speaker 1: the augurs were, and one said, how the gods have
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  Speaker 1: given to day high courage to this man. He hath
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  Speaker 1: not been heretofore valiant heaven is kindling him to be
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  Speaker 1: the trojan's ruin. But to us salvation now full. Soon
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  Speaker 1: I trow we reach the goal of grievous war so
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  Speaker 1: long unseen. So a voice murmured, Midia cayan host. Then
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  Speaker 1: to stir up the heroes, Nestor cried, Now is the time,
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  Speaker 1: dear sons, for courage and strength. Now do the gods
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  Speaker 1: bring nigh the end of toil. Now give thee victory
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  Speaker 1: to our longing hands. Come bravely, enter ye this cavernous horse,
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  Speaker 1: for high renown at tendeth courage high. Oh that my
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  Speaker 1: limbs were mighty as of old. When hesion sons for
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  Speaker 1: heroes call to man swift cargo, one of the hero's
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  Speaker 1: foremost eye would gladly have entered her. But pelleas the
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  Speaker 1: king withheld me in mine own despite ah me. But
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  Speaker 1: now the burden of years, O nay, as I were
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  Speaker 1: young into the horse well high, fearlessly, glory and strength
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  Speaker 1: shall courage give answered him, golden haired Achilles son, Nestor,
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  Speaker 1: in wisdom, thou art chief of men, But cruel age
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  Speaker 1: hath caught thee in his grip. No more thy strength
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  Speaker 1: may match thy gallant will. Therefore thou needs muth unto
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  Speaker 1: Tenedos strand we will take ambush. We the youths of
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  Speaker 1: Strife insatiate still as thou, old Sire dost bid. Then
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  Speaker 1: strode the son of Nelius to his side, and kiss'd
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  Speaker 1: his hands, and kiss the head of him, who offer'd
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  Speaker 1: thus himself the first of all to enter that huge horse.
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  Speaker 1: Being peril, fane and bad, the elder of days abide
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  Speaker 1: without Then to the battle, eager spake thee old thy
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  Speaker 1: father's son, art Thou Achilles, might and chivalrous speech be here.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sure am I that by thine hands the art
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  Speaker 1: I shall destroy the stately city of Priam at the last,
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  Speaker 1: after long travail, glory shall be ours, after toil and
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  Speaker 1: tribulation of war. Gods have laid tribulation at men's feet,
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  Speaker 1: but happiness far off, and toil between. Therefore, for men
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  Speaker 1: full easy is the path to ruin, and the path
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  Speaker 1: to fame is hard, where feet must press right on
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  Speaker 1: through painful toil. He spake, replied Achilles's glorious son, old Sire,
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  Speaker 1: as thine heart trusteth be it vouchsafed in answer to
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  Speaker 1: our prayers for best were this, But if the gods
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  Speaker 1: will otherwise be it, so I gladlier will I fall
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  Speaker 1: in glory of fight than flee from Troy, bowed neath
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  Speaker 1: load of shame. Then in his sire celestial arms he
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  Speaker 1: arrayed his shoulders, and with speed and harnessed sheath stood
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  Speaker 1: the most mighty heroes, in whose heart was dauntless spirit,
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  Speaker 1: Tell ye, queens of song, now man by man, the
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  Speaker 1: name of all that passed into the cavernous horse, For
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  Speaker 1: ye inspir'd my soul with all my song. Ere long
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  Speaker 1: my chicoud tark with Manhood's beard. What time I fed
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  Speaker 1: my goodly sheep on Smyrna's pasture, lee from hermis twice
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  Speaker 1: so far as one may hear a man shout by
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  Speaker 1: the fane of Artemis in the deliverer's grove, upon a hill,
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  Speaker 1: neither exceeding low nor passing high, into that cavernous horse,
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  Speaker 1: Achilles Son first entered strong Menilaus followed, then Odysseus, Stempalus
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  Speaker 1: Tod like Thiomede, Philoctitus and Menestheus, Anticlus Thoas and Polypoetas
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  Speaker 1: Golden haired Aias Eurypolus Tod like Thrasamide, Idominius Merionus far
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  Speaker 1: famous twain Partalerius of Spears, Eurymachus ters of a godlike
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  Speaker 1: fierce i Omenus Thalpius, and Timacchus, the oldiest staunch, your
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  Speaker 1: Melas and your violess, fair as a god. And from
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  Speaker 1: Maccus demophoon A, cabanur A, Kamas Megas stalwart Phylas son
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  Speaker 1: yea more, even all their chiefest entered in so many
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  Speaker 1: as that carbon horse could hold, god like apaious. Last
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  Speaker 1: of all passed in the fashioner of the horse. In
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  Speaker 1: his breast lay the secret of the opening of its
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  Speaker 1: doors and of their closing. Therefore, last of all he entered,
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  Speaker 1: and he drew the ladders up, whereby they clomb. Then
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  Speaker 1: he made all secure, and set himself beside the bolt.
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  Speaker 1: So all in silence sat TwixT victory and death. But
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  Speaker 1: the rest fired the tents, wherein erewhile they slept, and
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  Speaker 1: sell the wide sea in their ships. Two mighty hearted
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  Speaker 1: captains ordered these Nestor and Agamemnon, lord of Spears, fain
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  Speaker 1: had they also enter'd that great horse, But all the
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  Speaker 1: host withheld them, bidding stay with them a shipboard, ordering
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  Speaker 1: their array, for men far better work the works of
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  Speaker 1: war when their kings oversee them. Therefore, these abode without
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  Speaker 1: albeit mighty men. So came they swiftly on to Tendo's shore,
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  Speaker 1: and dropped the anchor stones. Then leapt in haste forth
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  Speaker 1: of the ships, and silent waited there, keen, watching till
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  Speaker 1: the signal torch should flash. But nigh the foe were
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  Speaker 1: they in the horse. And now look they for death,
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  Speaker 1: and now to smite the town. And on their hopes
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  Speaker 1: and fears, aprose the dawn. Then mark the Trojans upon
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  Speaker 1: hellespont'stran the smoke up, leaping yet through air no more
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  Speaker 1: they saw the ships which brought to them from Greece destruction,
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  Speaker 1: tire with joy, to the shore they ran, but armed
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  Speaker 1: them first, for fear still haunted them. Then marked they
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  Speaker 1: that fair carven horse, and stood marveling round for a
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  Speaker 1: mighty work. Was there a hapless seeming man. Thereby they
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  Speaker 1: spied Sinon, and this one that one questioned him, touching
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  Speaker 1: the dandians as in a great ring. They compassed him,
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  Speaker 1: and with unangry words, first questioned, then with terrible threatenings,
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  Speaker 1: then tortured they that man of guileful soul, long time, unceasing,
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  Speaker 1: firm as a rock abode the unquivering limbs, the uncomfortable will,
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  Speaker 1: his ears, his nose. At last they shore away, in
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: every wise, tormenting him until he should declare the truth.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Whither were called the Dadians in their ships. What thing,
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  Speaker 1: though horse concealed within he had armed his mind with resolution,
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  Speaker 1: and of outrage foul recked not his soul endured their
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  Speaker 1: cruel stripes, kay and the bitter torment of the fire
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  Speaker 1: for strong endurance into him. Herrah breathed, And still he
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  Speaker 1: told them the same tileful tale. They are guys in
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  Speaker 1: the shipsley over sea, weary of tribulation, of endless war.
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  Speaker 1: This horse, by Calcus counsel fashionedly for wise Athena to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: propitiate her stern wrath, for that guardian image stolen from Troy,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: and by Odysseus prompting, I was marked for slaughter, to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: be sacrificed through the sea powers beside the moaning waves,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to win them safe return. But their intent I marked,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: And here they spilt the drops of wine and sprinkled
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  Speaker 1: hallowed meal upon mine head. Sertly I fled, and by
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  Speaker 1: the help of Heaven I flung me down, clasping the
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  Speaker 1: horses feet, and they sore loth perform horse must leave
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  Speaker 1: me there, dreading Great Zeus's daughter Mighty sould in subtlety.
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  Speaker 1: So he spake his soul untamed by pain. For a
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  Speaker 1: brave man's part is to endure to the uttermost. And
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: of the Trojans, some believed him, others for a wily
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: knave held him. Of whose mind was laou Kun. Wisely
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  Speaker 1: he spake A deadly fraught is this, he said, devised
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  Speaker 1: by the Achaean chiefs hey, And they had opaid him
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  Speaker 1: and had escaped destruction. But Athena fiercely wrought with him.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: The Trojans and their city shook earth deepflantations neath thlaou
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  Speaker 1: Kun's feet. Straight terror fell on him, and, trembling pow
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  Speaker 1: the knees of the presumptuous pound his head. Horror of
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: darkness poured his sharp pang thrilled his eyelids, swam his
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: eyes beneath his brows, his eyeballs stabbed with bitter anguish,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: throbbed even from the roots, and rolled in frenzy of
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: pain clear through his brain. The bearer tormy pierced even
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: to the filmy inner veil thereof now bloodshot were his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: now ghastly green, anon with ruin, they ran as poor
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: as he streamed down from a rugged crag with falling snow,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: made turbid as a man distraught, he seem'd all things
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: he saw showed trouble, and he groaned fearfully. Yet he
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  Speaker 1: ceased not to exhort the man of Troy, and wrecked
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: not of his pain. Then if the Goddess strike him
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: utterly blind stared his fix at high walls white for
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: pits of blood, and all folk groaned for pity for
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: their friend, and tread of the prey giver. Lest he
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: had sinned in folly against her, and his mind was
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: thus warped to destruction. Yea lest on themselves, like judgment
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: should be visited to avenge the outraged on to hapless,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: silent flesh. Whereby they hoped to wring the truth from him.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: So led they him in friendly wise to Troy, pitying
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: him at the last, then gathered all and o'er that
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: huge horse hastily cast a rope and made it fast above,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: For under its feet smooth wooden rollers had a paeous
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  Speaker 1: laid that dragg'd by Trojan hands, it might glide into
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  Speaker 1: their fortress. One and all they held with multitudinous tug
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and strain, as when down to the sea, young men
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: soar laboring draggy ship, hard crust, the stubborn rollers groan
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: as sliding with weird shrieks. The keel descends into the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: sea surge, so that host with toil dragged up to
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: their city their own doom. A paious work with great
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: festoons of flowers, they hung it and their own heads
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: did they wreath, while answering each other, peeled the flutes grimly.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Eno laughed, seeing the end of that entire war. Hera
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: rejoiced on high clad was Athena. When the Trojans came
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: unto their city, break they down the walls the city's coronal,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: that the horse of death might be led in. Troy's
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: daughters greeted it with shouts of salutation, marveling all gaze
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: at the mighty work where lurk their doom. But still
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: thou comb ceased not to exhort his countrymen to burn
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the horse with fire. They would not hear, for dread
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of the God's wrath. But then a yet more hideous
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: punishment Athena visited on his hapless sons. A cave there
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was beneath a rugged cliff exceeding high, unscalable, wherein twelt
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: fearful monsters of the deadly brood of Typhon in the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: rock clefts of the Isle of Kolyigna that looks Troy
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: went from the sea. Thence stirred, she up the strength
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: of Serpent's train and summoned them to Troy. By her uproused,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: they shook the island as with an earthquake, roared the sea.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: The waves disparted as they came onward. They swept with
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: fearful flicking tongues, shuddered the very monsters of the deep
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: santless and samoas daughters moaned aloud the river nymphs. The
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Siperian Queen looked down in anguish from Olympus. Swiftly they
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: came whither. The goddess sped them with grim jaws, wetting
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: their deadly fangs on his hapless sons sprang. They all Trojans,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: panic stricken, fled seeing those fearsome dragons in their town.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: No man, though ne'er so tauntless. Theretofore tarried, dastly dread
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: lay hold on all, shrinking in horror from the monsters,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: screamed the women. Yea, the mother forgot her child, fear
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: frenzied as she fled. All Troy became one shriek of flears.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: The streets were choked with towering fugitives. Alone was left
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Laoucun with his sons for destoom, and the totties chained
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: their feet. Then, even as from destruction shrank the lads,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: those deadly fangs had seized and ravened up the twain
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: outstretching through their sightless sire agonized hands. No power to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: help had he. Trojans far off looked on from every side, weeping,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: all dazed and having fulfilled, upon the Trojan's palace awful
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: hest those monsters vanished neath the earth, and still stands
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: their memorial where into the fame they entered of Apollo.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: In Pergamis, thehollowed there before, the sons of Troy gathered
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: and reared a cenotath for those who miserably had perished
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: over it. Their father, from his blind and eyes, rained
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the tears over the empty tomb. Their mother shrieked, poding
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the wild yet worse things, wailing o'er the ruin wrought
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: by folly of her lord, treading the anger of the
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: blessed ones, as when round her void nest in a
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: break in sorest anguish, moans the nightingale, whose fledglings ere
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: they learned her plaintive song. A hideous serpent's fangs have
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: done to death, and left the mother anguish, endless, woe
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and bootless, crying round her desolate home. So groaned she
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: for her children's wretched death, So moaned she or the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: void tomb, and her pangs were sharpened by her lord's plight,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: stricken blind, whilst she for children and for husband moaned
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: these slain He of the suns, like portionless, the Trojans
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to the immortal, sacrificed, pouring wine. Their hearts beat with
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: hope to escape the weary stress of woeful war. Howbeit
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the victims burned not, and the flames died out, as
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: though neath heavy hissing rain and writhed, the smoke rings
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: blood red, and the thighs quivering from crumbling altars fell
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: to earth, drink offerings turned to blood. God's statues wept,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and the temple walls dripped gore along them rolled echoes
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: of groaning out of depths unseen, and all the long
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: walls shuddered. From the towers came quick sharp sounds, like
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: cries of men in pain, and weirdly shrieking of themselves,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: slid back the gate bolts, screaming desolation. Well, the birds
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: of night above that God built burg a mist palled
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: every star, and yet no cloud was in the flashing
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: heavens by Phoebus fame. Whither the bays that erst were lushing,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: green holes and foul feeding jackals came and held within
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the gates. I other signs untold appeared, portending woe to darkness,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: sons and Troy. Yet no fear touched the trojan's hearts,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: who saw all through the town those portents. Dire Fate
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: crazed them all that midst their reveling, slain by their foes,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: they might full up their doom. One the heart was steadfast,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: one soul clear Hyde Cassandra, never her words were unfulfilled.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Yet was there utter truth by Fate's decree. Ever, as
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: idle wind in the hearer's ears, that no bar to
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Troy's ruin might be set, She saw those evil portents
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: all through Troy, conspiring to one end. Loud rang her
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: cry as roars a lioness that mid the breaks a
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: hunter has stabbed or shot, when at her heart maddens,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and down the law hills rolls her roar, and her
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: might waxes tenfold. So with heart aflame, with prophecy came
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: she forth her bower over her snowy shoulders, tossed her
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: hair streaming far down, and wildly blazed her eyes. Her
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: neck writhed like a sapling in the wind, shaken as
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: moaned and shrieked that noble maid, Oh, wretches into the
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: land of darkness. Now we are passing for round us
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: full of fire and blood and dismal moan. The city
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: is everywhere portents of calamity, God show destruction yawned before
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: your feet. Fools, Ye do not your doom. Still you
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: rejoice with one consent in madness, who to Troy have
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: brought the yard I've horse where Ruin lurts, Oh, you
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: believe me not, though now so loud I cry the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: orrhnaess and ruthless fates, Helen's spousals madly wroth through Troy,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: dart on wild wings. And ye ye are banquetting there
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in your last feast on meat befelled with gore, when
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: now your feet are on the paths of ghost. Then
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: cried a scoffing voice, an ominous word. WHOI doth a
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: raving tongue of evil speech, daughter of Priam, Make thy
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: lips to cry words empty as wind. No maiden modesty
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: with purity fails THEE thou art compass round with ruinous madness.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Therefore all men scorn thee pamelor hence thy evil bodings.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Speak to the argives and thyself, For THEE doth weigh
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: anguish and shame, yet bitterer than befell, presumptuous laokun shame
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: at word and folly to destroy the immortal's gift. So
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: scoffed Etrojan. Others in like sort cried shame on her
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and said she spake but lies, saying that ruin and
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Fate's heavy stroke were heart at hand. They knew not
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: their own doom, and mocked and thrust her back from
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: that huge horse, For fain was she to smite its
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: beams apart or burned with ravening fire. She snatched a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: random blazing pinewood from the hearth and ran in fury.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: In the other hand, she buried two hedged talbird, and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: on that horse of dooms she rushed to cause the
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Trojans to behold with their own eyes the ambush hidden there,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: but straightway from her hands. They plucked and flung afar
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: the fire and steel, and careless turned to the feast,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: for darkened o'er them their last night within the horse,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the Argives joyed to hear the uproar of Troy's feasters,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: setting it not Cassandra, but they marveled that she knew
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: so well the Achaean's purpose and device. As mid the hills,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: a furious pantheress, which from the steading helms and shepherd
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: folk drive with fierce rush, with savage heart, turns back
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: even in departing, called, albeit by darts. So from the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: great horse fled she anguish racked for Troy, for all
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: the ruins she foreknew. End of chapter twelve