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“I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.”
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- Source:
- Works. Book iv. Chap. xxxviii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 883d113b6d93eb990a7b3f0ef33ab06bb20201a51d54d3aa64ea3972e12c67f3
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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