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[pg<br />

300]<br />

<strong>The</strong> desert echoes, and the rocks<br />

reply:<br />

<strong>The</strong> warriors thus opposed in arms,<br />

engage<br />

With equal clamours, and with<br />

equal rage.<br />

Jove view'd the combat: whose<br />

event foreseen,<br />

He thus bespoke his sister and his<br />

queen:<br />

"<strong>The</strong> hour draws on; the destinies<br />

ordain, 245<br />

My godlike son shall press the<br />

Phrygian plain:<br />

Already on the verge <strong>of</strong> death he<br />

stands,<br />

His life is owed to fierce Patroclus'<br />

hands,<br />

What passions in a parent's breast<br />

debate!

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