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And how he was disobedient to the
river,1 who was a god
and was ready to fight with him, and again that he said of the locks of his
hair, consecrated to her river Spercheius: “‘This let me give to take with him my hair to the hero,
Patroclus,’”Hom. Il. 23.1512 who was a
dead body, and that he did so we must believe. And again the trailings3 of Hector's body round the grave of Patroclus and the
slaughter4 of the living captives upon his pyre,
all these we will affirm to be lies,
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