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“Thus did the old man charge them, for he had been in many a fight, and King Agamemnon was glad. ‘ I wish,’ he said to them, ‘that your limbs were as supple and your strength as sure as your judgment is; by age, the common enemy of mankind, has laid his hand upon you; would that it had fallen upon some other, and that you were still young.’” P44