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me.’
              ‘My good brother,’ answered Hector, ‘you fight bravely,
            and no man with any justice can make light of your doings
           in battle. But you are careless and wilfully remiss. It grieves
           me to the heart to hear the ill that the Trojans speak about
           you, for they have suffered much on your account. Let us
            be going, and we will make things right hereafter, should
           Jove vouchsafe us to set the cup of our deliverance before
            ever-living gods of heaven in our own homes, when we have
            chased the Achaeans from Troy.’





























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