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To: SES1066

“To him Phyleus’ spear-famed son came near, and struck him with a cast of his sharp spear at the sinew of the head; and straight through between the teeth the bronze sheared away the tongue at its base. So he fell in the dust, and his teeth bit the cold bronze.”


30 posted on 07/01/2016 1:17:04 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
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To: pierrem15
To him Phyllis’ spear-famed son ...

One of the bloodiest books (5) of Home's Iliad, lots of puncture wounds. However all the experts of Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries Greek literature would swear that Homer was a myth and his works were fiction - Until the German-American amateur, Heinrich Schliemann, proved that Troy and thus Homer existed!

33 posted on 07/01/2016 1:48:41 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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