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Homer’s Iliad
BOOK XIII
Now when Jove had thus brought Hector and the Trojans to the
ships, he left them to their never-ending toil, and turned his keen
eyes away, looking elsewhither towards the horse-breeders of
Thrace, the Mysians, fighters at close quarters, the noble
Hippemolgi, who live on milk, and the Abians, justest of mankind.
He no longer turned so much as a glance towards Troy, for he did
not think that any of the immortals would go and help either
Trojans or Danaans.
But King Neptune had kept no blind look-out; he had been looking
admiringly on the battle from his seat on the topmost crests of
wooded Samothrace, whence he could see all Ida, with the city of
Priam and the ships of the Achaeans. He had come from under the
sea and taken his place here, for he pitied the Achaeans who were
being overcome by the Trojans; and he was furiously angry with
Jove.
Presently he came down from his post on the mountain top, and as
he strode swiftly onwards the high hills and the forest quaked
beneath the tread of his immortal feet. Three strides he took, and
with the fourth he reached his goal- Aegae, where is his glittering
golden palace, imperishable, in the depths of the sea. When he got
there, he yoked his fleet brazen-footed steeds with their manes of
gold all flying in the wind; he clothed himself in raiment of gold,
grasped his gold whip, and took his stand upon his chariot. As he
went his way over the waves the sea-monsters left their lairs, for
they knew their lord, and came gambolling round him from every
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