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979—985
BOOK XI
223
And hides of oxen on the floor displayed:
There stretched at length the wounded hero lay;
Patroclus cut the forky steel away.
Then in his hands a bitter root he bruised;
The wound he washed, the styptic juice infused;
The closing flesh that instant ceased to glow,
The wound to torture, and the blood to flow.
