Main Title: Illiad, The
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Author: Homer
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Publisher Used for Citing: Anchor Books
Type: Poetry
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The Trojan squadrons flanked by officers drew up and sortied, in a din of arms and shouting voices – wave on wave, like cranes in clamorous lines before the face of heaven, beating away from winter’s gloom and storms, over the streams of Ocean, hoarsely calling, to bring a slaughter on the Pygmy warriors – cranes at dawn descending, beaked in cruel attack.