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When he led the chosen flower of
Hellas
, vexed
for the steeds,
1
and at the fair stream of Simois he stayed his sea-borne ship and fastened cables to the stern, and forth from the ship he took the bow his hand could deftly shoot, to be the doom of Laomedon; and with the ruddy breath of fire
810
he wasted the masonry squared by Phoebus’ line and chisel, and sacked the land of
Troy
; so twice in two attacks has the blood-stained spear destroyed Dardania’s walls.
815
When he led the chosen flower of
Hellas
, vexed
for the steeds,
1
and at the fair stream of Simois he stayed his sea-borne ship and fastened cables to the stern, and forth from the ship he took the bow his hand could deftly shoot, to be the doom of Laomedon; and with the ruddy breath of fire
810
he wasted the masonry squared by Phoebus’ line and chisel, and sacked the land of
Troy
; so twice in two attacks has the blood-stained spear destroyed Dardania’s walls.
815
The Trojan Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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