page 180 : Iliad, XI.26

On either side toward the neck three blue resplendent serpents
Did arch their throats; to rainbows like, which on the cloudy heaven
Saturnius may plant, a sign to voice-dividing mortals.



The Iliad of Homer,
Faithfully translated into unrhymed English metre
by F. W. Newman,
London,
Walton and Maberly,
upper Gower street, and Ivy lane, Paternoster row,
1856

page 180 : Iliad, XI.26


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