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Early Indo-European Texts
Classical Greek
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- from Thucydides' History of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, Book 1
- from Homer's Iliad
- from Homer's Odyssey
- from Herodotus' History, Book 1
- from Herodotus' History, Book 4
- from Xenophon's Anabasis
- from Hesiod's Works and Days, Part 1
- from Plato's Republic, Book 6, Section 13
- from Aristotle's The Poetics, Book 4: 22-26
- from Pausanias' Description of Greece, Attica 22: 4-5
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