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Translation: Tell me of the man, Muse, the wily one, who was driven far and wide, after he'd sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose towns he saw and minds he knew; many were the trials he endured in his heart on the sea, contending for his own life and his companions' return. But he still couldn't save his companions, try though he did; they were destroyed by their own transgressions, the fools; they devoured the oxen of Hyperion the Sun God. And so he took away the day of their homecoming. From hereabouts, Goddess, Daughter of Zeus, tell us these things as well.
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