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Original / primary: Perseus Eng1
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I come, and I come yearly, like the swallow
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that perches light-footed in the fore-part of your house. But quickly bring
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If you will give us anything (well). But if not, we will not wait,
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for we are not come here to dwell with you.
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HOMER
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Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything?
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FISHERMEN
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All that we caught we left behind, and all that we did not catch we carry home.The lice which they caught in their clothes they left behind, but carried home in their clothes those which they could not catch.
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HOMER
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Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung
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as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.