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What Peleus would say on hearing that Achilles absented himself from the Battle
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Πηλιάδες σκοπιαί, κουροτρόφοι, εἴπατε παιδί,
— Paton edition
ὃν Χείρων ἐδίδαξεν ἀριστεύειν ἐνὶ χάρμῃ,
μῆνιν ἀπορρῖψαι καὶ λοίγιον ἔχθος Ἀχαιοῖς.
Ye peaks of Pelias, who nursed him, tell my son,
— Paton edition
whom Chiron taught to be first in battle, to cast off
his wrath and fatal enmity to the Greeks.
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