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Book 5, Lines 859–863

Ares’ Terrible Scream

A

Then Ares the brazen bellowed

with a sound as great as nine thousand men make, or ten thousand,

when they cry as they carry into the fighting the fury of the war god.

And a shivering seized hold alike on Achaians and Trojans

in their fear at the bellowing of battle-insatiate Ares.

B

Then brazen Ares bellowed as loud as ten thousand warriors shout in battle, when they meet in the war-god’s shadow. The Greeks and Trojans trembled with fear at insatiable Ares’ cry.

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