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The Iliad 7.446–453

Poseidon to Zeus · divine
The Iliad 7.446–453
but gave not glorious hecatombs to the gods? Of a surety shall the fame thereof reach as far as the dawn spreadeth, and men will forget the wall that I and Phoebus Apollo built with toil for the warrior Laomedon.
Ζεῦ πάτερ, ῥά τίς ἐστι βροτῶν ἐπʼ ἀπείρονα γαῖαν ὅς τις ἔτʼ ἀθανάτοισι νόον καὶ μῆτιν ἐνίψει; οὐχ ὁράᾳς ὅτι δʼ αὖτε κάρη κομόωντες Ἀχαιοὶ τεῖχος ἐτειχίσσαντο νεῶν ὕπερ, ἀμφὶ δὲ τάφρον ἤλασαν, οὐδὲ θεοῖσι δόσαν κλειτὰς ἑκατόμβας; τοῦ δʼ ἤτοι κλέος ἔσται ὅσον τʼ ἐπικίδναται ἠώς· τοῦ δʼ ἐπιλήσονται τὸ ἐγὼ καὶ Φοῖβος Ἀπόλλων ἥρῳ Λαομέδοντι πολίσσαμεν ἀθλήσαντε.
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