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  • They lie who call you son of aegis-bearing Jove, for you are little like those who were of old his children.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Saturn, obeyed her words; she set about harnessing her gold-bedizened steeds, while Minerva daughter of aegis-bearing Jove flung her richly vesture, made with her own hands, on to the threshold of her father, and donned the shirt of Jove, arming herself for battle.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • He slew him, but did not for very shame despoil him; when he had burned him in his wondrous armour, he raised a barrow over his ashes and the mountain nymphs, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, planted a grove of elms about his tomb.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Muses, daughters of aegis-bearing Jove, if they should sing against him; whereon they were angry, and maimed him.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • At your bidding I suffused my sweet self over the mind of aegis-bearing Jove, and laid him to rest; meanwhile you hatched a plot against Hercules, and set the blasts of the angry winds beating upon the sea, till you took him to the goodly city of

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Gorgon,, grim and awful to behold, portent of aegis-bearing Jove.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Hades, when this same man, the son of aegis-bearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell, and hurt him badly.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • He knew those who were about him, and the sweat and hard breathing had left him from the moment when the will of aegis-bearing Jove had revived him.

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Get our horses ready, while I go within the house of aegis-bearing

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

  • Then she went back to Olympus among the other gods, and to the house of aegis-bearing

    The Iliad of Homer 1898

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