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A03513 Achilles shield Translated as the other seuen bookes of Homer, out of his eighteenth booke of Iliades. By George Chapman Gent.; Iliad. Book 18. English. Chapman. Selections Homer.; Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. 1598 (1598) STC 13635; ESTC S106158 13,144 30

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