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“Seven cities warred for Homer being dead, Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 715dd31453261a8c45614e5010f0331a374ca0f28f63fecfdb90c5f17eca7e5f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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