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The Iliad

BOOK V
19/41

So, also, did huge Hades, when this same man, the son of aegis-bearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell, and hurt him badly.

Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus, angry and full of pain; and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the wound, for Hades was not of mortal mould.

Daring, head-strong, evildoer who recked not of his sin in shooting the gods that dwell in Olympus.

And now Minerva has egged this son of Tydeus on against yourself, fool that he is for not reflecting that no man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle.

Let, then, the son of Tydeus see that he does not have to fight with one who is stronger than you are.


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