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| | Classical E-Text: HOMER, ILIAD 12 |
 | | The second company was led by Paris and Alcathous and Agenor, and the third by Helenus and godlike Deïphobus -- sons twain of Priam; and a third was with them, the warrior Asius, -- Asius son of Hyrtacus, whom his horses tawny and great had borne from Arisbe, from the river Selleïs. |
 | | These then when they had fenced one another with their well-wrought shields of bull's-hide, made straight for the Danaans, full eagerly, nor deemed they that they would any more be stayed, but would fall upon the fl ships. |
 | | Then verily Asius, son of Hyrtacus, uttered a groan, and smote both his thighs, and in sore indignation he spake, saying: "Father Zeus, of a surety thou too then art utterly a lover of lies, for I deemed not that the Achaean warriors would stay our might and our invincible hands. |
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