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O Telamon, King of Salamis, the feeding-ground of bees, [800] who have your home in a seagirt isle that lies near the holy hills where first Athena made the grey olive branch to appear, a crown for heavenly heads and a glory to happy Athens, you came, you came in knightly brotherhood [805] with that great archer, Alcmena's son, to sack our city Ilium, in days gone by, [on your advent from Hellas];
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, translated by E. P. Coleridge. Volume I. London. George Bell and Sons. 1891.
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