"Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."
"Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee."
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Source: Homer (1891). “The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions”, p.162, Library of Alexandria
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