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Achaeans
Gods
Trojans
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Here I stand and here I struck and here my work is done. I did it all. I don't deny it, no. He has no way to flee or fight his destiny - our never-ending, all-embracing net, I cast it wide for the royal haul, I coil him round and round in the wealth, the robes of doom, and then I strike him once, twice, and at each stroke he cries in agony - he buckles at the knees and crashes here! And when he's down I add the third, last blow, to the Zeus who saves the dead beneath the ground I send that blow home in homage like a prayer. So he goes down, and the life is bursting
out of him -
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