“As far as white Aurora's dews are sprinkled through the air.”
Book VII, line 374, p. 104
The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets (1611)
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The Beetle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
