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Homer, Iliad 11.161-2

“…But these men were laid out on the dirt, dearer to the vultures than to their wives.”

…οἳ δ᾽ ἐπὶ γαίῃ
κείατο, γύπεσσιν πολὺ φίλτεροι ἢ ἀλόχοισιν.

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