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Proofs of the Enquiry, &c.
Along the Grecian Ships, to their proud Lord-, The Dame unwilling went. —
And when the News of the Death of Patroclus was brought to Achilles,
Ibid./Ibid-
The Women whom Patroclus, now ah dead I And great Achilles late had Captives made, With Anguish pierc'd, run shrieking forth, and found Their mournful Master prostrate on the ground; Beating their tender Breasts.
But the Word Δμωαὶ 1, here translated Women, signifies no more than Maid-Servants or She-Slaves—and the other ληΐσσατο, translated made Captives, means properly, plundered or carried off by Violence.
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