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The Iliad 19.309–314

The Iliad 19.309–314
but the two sons of Atreus abode, and goodly Odysseus, and Nestor and Idomeneus and the old man Phoenix, driver of chariots, seeking to comfort him in his exceeding sorrow; but no whit would his heart be comforted until he entered the mouth of bloody war. And as he thought thereon he heaved a heavy sigh and spake, saying:
ὣς εἰπὼν ἄλλους μὲν ἀπεσκέδασεν βασιλῆας, δοιὼ δʼ Ἀτρεΐδα μενέτην καὶ δῖος Ὀδυσσεὺς Νέστωρ Ἰδομενεύς τε γέρων θʼ ἱππηλάτα Φοῖνιξ τέρποντες πυκινῶς ἀκαχήμενον· οὐδέ τι θυμῷ τέρπετο, πρὶν πολέμου στόμα δύμεναι αἱματόεντος. μνησάμενος δʼ ἁδινῶς ἀνενείκατο φώνησέν τε·
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