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a
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
Achilles
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
and
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
Atrides
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
camp
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captive
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
chain
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
chiefs
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
Chryses
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
contagion
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costly
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
daughter
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
dead
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Declare
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defied
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Devouring
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
died
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dire
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direful
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
dogs
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
doom
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
fierce
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for
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from
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gain
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
gifts
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
gloomy
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
goddess
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
great
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
Greece
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
heap'd
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
heavenly
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
his
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hour
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hungry
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
hurl'd
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
ill-fated
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in
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
Jove
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
king
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
king's
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Latona's
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limbs
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
men
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mighty
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
mountains
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Muse
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naked
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
O
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Of
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
offence
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
offended
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on
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
people
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Pluto's
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
power
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priest
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reign
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
reverent
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shore
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
Since
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
sing
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
slain
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
son
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sought
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
souls
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
sovereignadjectiveUS /ˈsɑːv.rən/
Possessing supreme or ultimate power; autonomous and commanding.
From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
spread
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
spring
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
Sprung
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
strife
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
strove
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
Such
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
That
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
the
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
to
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
tore
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
unburied
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
unnumber'd
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
untimely
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
victor's
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From this reading For Chryses sought with costly gifts to gain His captive daughter from the victor’s chain.
vultures
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
was
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
what
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
which
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
Whose
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From this reading That wrath which hurl’d to Pluto’s gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain; Whose limbs unburied on the naked shore, Devouring dogs and hungry vultures tore.
will
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From this reading Since great Achilles and Atrides strove, Such was the sovereign doom, and such the will of Jove!
with
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From this reading Declare, O Muse! in what ill-fated hour Sprung the fierce strife, from what offended power Latona’s son a dire contagion spread, And heap’d the camp with mountains of the dead; The king of men his reverent priest defied, And for the king’s offence the people died.
woes
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
wrath
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From this reading Achilles’ wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber’d, heavenly goddess, sing!
