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... hand - to - hand fight with their enemy , might as Archilochus bears witness in his verses : They use no slings nor bows , Eubon's martial lords , But hand to hand they closo And conquer with their swords , ” So they cut their hair ...
... hand - to - hand fight with their enemy , might as Archilochus bears witness in his verses : They use no slings nor bows , Eubon's martial lords , But hand to hand they closo And conquer with their swords , ” So they cut their hair ...
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... hands , and disregarding justice and right and kindly feeling , which they said were only approved of by those who dared not do injury to others , or feared to bo injured themselves , while men who could get the upper hand by forco ...
... hands , and disregarding justice and right and kindly feeling , which they said were only approved of by those who dared not do injury to others , or feared to bo injured themselves , while men who could get the upper hand by forco ...
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... hands upon him and forbade him to proceed farther on his way . The club took his fancy , and he adopted it as a weapon , and always used it , just as IIorakles used his lion's skin ; for the skin was a proof of how huge a beast the ...
... hands upon him and forbade him to proceed farther on his way . The club took his fancy , and he adopted it as a weapon , and always used it , just as IIorakles used his lion's skin ; for the skin was a proof of how huge a beast the ...
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... hands on board , but Jason alone , the master of the great ship Argo , should cruise about , and keep the sca free of pirates . Now when Daedalus fled to Athens , Minos , contrary to the decree , pursued him in long war galleys , and ...
... hands on board , but Jason alone , the master of the great ship Argo , should cruise about , and keep the sca free of pirates . Now when Daedalus fled to Athens , Minos , contrary to the decree , pursued him in long war galleys , and ...
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... hand bado Theseus himself assess the damages of his raid upon the cattle , saying that he himself would willingly submit to ... hands upon tho women , the Lapithe attacked them . Some of them they slew , and the rest they overcame , and ...
... hand bado Theseus himself assess the damages of his raid upon the cattle , saying that he himself would willingly submit to ... hands upon tho women , the Lapithe attacked them . Some of them they slew , and the rest they overcame , and ...
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