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| | Greek Mythology: BLESSINGS OF ARES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Like a stormcloud, Kyknos breaker of horses and Ares insatiate of battle, and as their horses on either side came facing, they neighed sharply, and the sound of their voices was breaking about them. |
 | | Kyknos, furious to kill the son of powerful Zeus, made a cast into the shield with his brazen spear, but could not break the bronze, and the gift of the god guarded him. |
 | | And now Amphitryons son, Herakles the powerful, swiftly struck, and forcibly with the long spear, between helm and shield, where the throat had been left unguarded, beneath the shin, and the manslaughtering ash spear cut through both tendons, for great was the strength of the man that was driven behind it. |
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