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... shores- The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore , Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove . Bent was his bow the Grecian hearts to wound ; Fierce , as ...
... shores- The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain ; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore , Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove . Bent was his bow the Grecian hearts to wound ; Fierce , as ...
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... shore , Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove . Such was the sov'reign doom , and such the will of Jove ! Declare , O Muse ! in what ill - fated hour Sprung the fierce strife ; from what ...
... shore , Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore ; Since great Achilles and Atrides strove . Such was the sov'reign doom , and such the will of Jove ! Declare , O Muse ! in what ill - fated hour Sprung the fierce strife ; from what ...
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... shores , With chosen pilots , and with labouring oars . But plagues shall spread , and funeral fires in- Soon shall ... shore . Left by Achilles on the Trojan plain , What spoils , what conquests , shall Atrides gain ? To this the king ...
... shores , With chosen pilots , and with labouring oars . But plagues shall spread , and funeral fires in- Soon shall ... shore . Left by Achilles on the Trojan plain , What spoils , what conquests , shall Atrides gain ? To this the king ...
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... shore with mountains of the dead , Then shalt thou mourn th ' affront thy niadness gave , Forc'd to deplore , when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul , to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe . He spoke , and ...
... shore with mountains of the dead , Then shalt thou mourn th ' affront thy niadness gave , Forc'd to deplore , when impotent to save : Then rage in bitterness of soul , to know This act has made the bravest Greek thy foe . He spoke , and ...
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... shores : High on the deck was fair Chryseïs plac'd , And sage Ulysses with the conduct grac'd : Safe in her sides the hecatomb they stow'd , Then swiftly sailing , cut the liquid road . Along the shore whole hecatombs were laid , And ...
... shores : High on the deck was fair Chryseïs plac'd , And sage Ulysses with the conduct grac'd : Safe in her sides the hecatomb they stow'd , Then swiftly sailing , cut the liquid road . Along the shore whole hecatombs were laid , And ...
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