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" Kuretes were climbing upon the towers and firing the great city. Then did his fair-girdled wife pray Meleagros with lamentation, and told him all the woes that come on men whose city is taken; the warriors are slain, and the city is wasted of fire, and... "
Greek and Roman [mythology] - Page 58
by William Sherwood Fox - 1916 - 354 pages
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The Mycenaean Age: A Study of the Monuments and Culture of Pre-Homeric Greece

Chrēstos Tsountas, James Irving Manatt - Civilization, Homeric - 1897 - 530 pages
...Achaians at Hector's hands have bitten the firm earth." Such, as old Phoenix rehearses them,2 " are the woes that come on men whose city is taken : the...deep-girdled women are led captive of strangers." CHAPTER IX SOME PHASES OF MYCENAEAN ART THE remains of the Mycenaean world, already passed in review,...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 1

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 456 pages
...great city. Then did his fairgirdled wife pray Meleagrus with lamentation, and told him all the woea that come on men whose city is taken; the warriors...tale, and he went his way and donned his glittering armor. So he saved the -lEtolians from the evil day, obeying his own will; but they paid him not now...
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The Iliad of Homer, Done Into English Prose

Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers - Classical Greek epic - 1911 - 528 pages
...not his heart within his breast, until his chamber was 1 Note 3. now hotly battered and the Kuretes were climbing upon the towers and firing the great...the warriors are slain, and the city is wasted of ftre, and the children and the deep-girdled women are led captive of strangers. And his soul was stirred...
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The Early Age of Greece, Volume 1

Sir William Ridgeway - Greece - 1931 - 788 pages
...mighty gift, a fair domain of fifty ploughgates." All was in vain till his " fair-girdled wife plied him with lamentation, and told him all the woes that come on men whose city is taken." 2—2 If McLennan's position were sound, it would follow that, whilst amongst the pre-Achean population...
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