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The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy (1918)

Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972, Homer, Pogány, Willy, 1882-1955 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 108

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the twenty bellows blew into the crucibles and madebright and hot fires. Then Hephaistos threw into the firesbronze and tin and silver and gold. He set on the anvil-standa great anvil, and took in one hand his hammer and in the otherhand his tongs. For the armour of Achilles he made first a shield… … 94 THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS so that it was so strong and thick that no spear or arrow couldpierce it. And upon this shield he hammered out images thatwere a wonder to men. The first were images of the sun and the moon and of the starsthat the shepherds and the seamen watch — the Pleiades andHyads…

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