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failing of his request, imprecated curses on the
Achaeans in his prayers to the god?” “I do.”
“You know then that as far as these verses,“
And prayed unto all the Achaeans,
Chiefly to Atreus' sons, twin leaders who marshalled the people,
”Hom. Il. 1.15the poet himself is the speaker
and does not even attempt to suggest to us that anyone but himself is
speaking.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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