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<strong>Homer</strong>’s <strong>Iliad</strong><br />

over the corn lands of the plain, turning him towards the deep<br />

waters of the river Scamander. Apollo ran but a little way before<br />

him and beguiled Achilles <strong>by</strong> making him think all the time that he<br />

was on the point of overtaking him. Meanwhile the rabble of<br />

routed Trojans was thankful to crowd within the city till their<br />

numbers thronged it; no longer did they dare wait for one another<br />

outside the city walls, to learn who had escaped and who were<br />

fallen in fight, but all whose feet and knees could still carry them<br />

poured pell-mell into the town.<br />

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