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Greek Anthology Book I Chapter IX Part II

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Memnon and Achilles, Asclepiodotus

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MEMNON AND ACHILLES
ASCLEPIODOTUS

Know, O Thetis of the sea, that Memnon yet lives and cries aloud, warmed by his mother's torch, in Egypt beneath Libyan brows, where the running Nile severs fair-portalled Thebes; but Achilles, the insatiate of battle, utters no voice either on the Trojan plain or in Thessaly.

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