...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your …

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...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. ✨ Homer (1998). The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation, p.355, Macmillan
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...if fifty bands of men surrounded us/ and every sword sang for your blood,/ you could make off still with their cows and sheep. ✨ Homer (1998). The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation, p.355, Macmillan

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