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The Iliad 1.584–585

The Iliad 1.584–585
Be patient, my mother, and endure for all your grief, lest, dear as you are to me, my eyes see you stricken, and then I shall in no way be able to succour you for all my sorrow; for a hard foe is the Olympian to meet in strife. On a time before this, when I was striving to save you,he caught me by the foot and hurled me from the heavenly threshold; the whole day long I was carried headlong, and at sunset I fell in Lemnos, and but little life was in me. There the Sintian folk quickly tended me for my fall. So he spoke, and the goddess, white-armed Hera, smiled,
ὣς ἄρʼ ἔφη καὶ ἀναΐξας δέπας ἀμφικύπελλον μητρὶ φίλῃ ἐν χειρὶ τίθει καί μιν προσέειπε·
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