page 339 : Iliad, XI.26

Three azure serpents, pointing towards the throat,
On either side the burnished corslet rose.
Like twofold rainbows, set upon a cloud
By Jove, a token to speech-gifted men.



The Iliad of Homer
Translated into Blank Verse by Ichabod Charles Wright,
translator of Dante,
Cambridge Macmillan and Co,
and 23, Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London,
1861

page 339 : Iliad, XI.26


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