Iliad two Crecians

Next, eighty barks the Cretan king commands,

Of Gnossus, Lyctus, and Gortyna's bands;

And those who dwell where Rhytion's domes arise,

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Or white Lycastus glitters to the skies,

Or where by Phaestus silver Jardan runs;

Crete's hundred cities pour forth all her sons.

These march'd, Idomeneus, beneath thy care,

And Merion, dreadful as the god of war.

 

n       We now turn to Crete and the way it saw its people , like son of it, and the gods of war they prayed to for strength.

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