Solymi

Created by Sreeja Jijith at 22 Sep 2011 13:06 and updated at 22 Sep 2011 13:06

ILIAD NOUN

ild.06 He next fought the far famed Solymi, and this, he said, was the hardest of all his battles.
ild.06 Mars, insatiate of battle, killed his son Isander while he was fighting the Solymi; his daughter was killed by Diana of the Golden reins, for she was angered with her; but Hippolochus was father to myself, and when he sent me to Troy he urged me again and again to fight ever among the foremost and outvie my peers, so as not to shame the blood of my fathers who were the noblest in Ephyra and in all Lycia.

Arise Greece! from thy silent sleep, 2000 years long it is! Forget not, thy ancient culture, beautiful and marvelous it is!

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