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Zeus most glorious and most great, thundercloud, throned in the heavens! let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until i cast down headlong the citadel of priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon hectors breast! may many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
-Homer
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Zeus Most Glorious And Most Great, Thundercloud,

Homer
Zeus most glorious and most great, thundercloud, throned in the heavens! let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until i cast down headlong the citadel of priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon hectors breast! may many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
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