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The Iliad

BOOK XX
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I have discomfited you once already.

Have you forgotten how when you were alone I chased you from your herds helter-skelter down the slopes of Ida?
You did not turn round to look behind you; you took refuge in Lyrnessus, but I attacked the city, and with the help of Minerva and father Jove I sacked it and carried its women into captivity, though Jove and the other gods rescued you.

You think they will protect you now, but they will not do so; therefore I say go back into the host, and do not face me, or you will rue it.

Even a fool may be wise after the event." Then Aeneas answered, "Son of Peleus, think not that your words can scare me as though I were a child.

I too, if I will, can brag and talk unseemly.


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