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seaside Antron, and Pteleus, the bed of grass, came men led by the warrior Protesilaus, 830 while he had been alive. By then already 700 the black earth held him. Back in Phylace, his wife was left to rip both cheeks in grief, his house was left half built. A Dardan killed him as he was jumping from his ship to shore— the first of all the Greeks. His troops were sorry to lose him, though they did not lack a leader.
The Iliad
by Homer
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