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Zeus strained tight above Patroklos that day. But the brilliant Achilleus did not yet know at all that Patroklos had fallen. Since now the men were fighting far away from the fast ships under the Trojan wall, and Achilleus had no expectation 405  that Patroklos was dead, but thought he was alive and close under the gates, and would come back. He had not thought that Patroklos would storm the city without himself, nor with himself either; for often he had word from his mother, not known to mortals; she was ever telling him what was the will of great Zeus; but this time 410  his mother did not ...more
The Iliad of Homer
by Homer
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