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Achilles

Achilles and they found him delighting his soul on a clear-sounding lyre, fair ornaments, and on it was a silver bridge; this he had taken from the spoil when he destroyed the city of Eëtion. On it he was delighting his soul, and he sang of the glorious deeds of men; and Patroclus alone sat facing him in silence, Homer, The Iliad 9.186-191 Read more
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