Book IV

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VIII. THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE.

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Nearly three books of the Iliad are occupied in telling about the battle that now followed, though it lasted only one day. But it was a fierce and mighty conflict in which many brave warriors fought and fell.

For that day Saw many a Trojan slain, and many a Greek, Stretched side by side upon the bloody field.

BRYANT, _Iliad_,