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odyssey as in: her odyssey from Mexico to Texas
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She told me of her odyssey leaving war-torn Syria and finally settling in Germany.
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He called the story A Space Odyssey.
odyssey = long, eventful journey
- The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything. (source)
- It occurred to Phil that from the point of view of the birds, their still forms, obscured by canvas hoods, must have looked like lifeless debris. ... One day, nine or ten days into their odyssey, Louie felt something alight on his hood, and saw its shadow fall before him. It was an albatross. (source)
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As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: "It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers 'out of place' in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites."
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- This crazy kidnapper (a. k. a. Ares) was the same man who had abducted me and two other adolescents in New York and brought us across country on a ten-day odyssey of terror. (source)
- She told her daughters, once again, the story of her odyssey from Japan on board the Korea Maru. (source)
- On the first leg of my odyssey, I sit between a Filipina nurse and a Tamil auto mechanic both on their way to Bahrain. (source)
- I could not and neither can she, for when this odyssey began, this is how I began. (source)
- But their odyssey comes to a humiliating halt. (source)
- My medical odyssey began in the summer of 2006, when I first felt slight, unexplained pain in my upper abdomen. (source)
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- ON MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1890, a day noteworthy in Chicago for its extraordinary warmth and elsewhere for the gunshot death of Sitting Bull, Daniel Burnham stepped aboard a train bound for New York and what he knew would be the most crucial encounter of the exposition odyssey. (source)
- A kind of Grand Odyssey to Somewhere, a way to reacquaint himself with reality after the fictional terrain of the novel. (source)
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The minister from Great Britain had survived the odyssey with exemplary stoicism, shooting with his camera the animals they would not allow him to kill with his rifles, and not a night went by that he was not seen in evening dress in the dining room.
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the odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
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Then she lowers her hand and her long fingers gesticulate and flutter in the air with incongruous grace as she recounts her odyssey.
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- Since Etta had stopped at a Mobil station three blocks away to wash off the evidence of a hot, dusty 'zoo-mile odyssey home, the chrome caught the rays of the high afternoon sun and flung them back into its face. (source)
- It was in my fifty-third year of practicing law, and my eightieth year of life here on this earth, that I was to undertake an odyssey that would change my life forever. (source)
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Her love of the quick and the greasy had sent her on an odyssey of fad diets, unsatisfying supplements, and miracle workout tapes through her late teens and early twenties.
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The round of parties began as scheduled the following day and our social odyssey was initiated, of course, at the home of the patriarch and matriarch of the clan.
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- The date was Tuesday, February 17, 1778, and, as Adams had no way of knowing, it marked the beginning of what would become a singular odyssey, in which he would journey farther in all, both by sea and land, than any other leader of the American cause. (source)
- His 2,600-mile hitchhiking odyssey of the previous spring, from the Gila River reservation in Arizona to Ed Block's south Texas cotton field and back—had put in motion a series of events that quickly reached the highest levels of the U.S. Marine command. (source)
- Jerene Mortenson had been anxiously following her son's odyssey from her new home in River Falls, Wisconsin. (source)
- Time to finish this twentieth-century odyssey of Phaedrus and be done with it. (source)
- The Amistads' Heroic Odyssey Revealed! (source)
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With over 500,000 fans waiting for hours to see them, the boys had no idea how much Monterrey had fallen in love with them during their odyssey.
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Their journey has been an odyssey, and the Grants are exhausted.
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- But finally, when dawn breaks and deep fatigue floods through my bones and muscles—including that doughty love-muscle which at last begins to flag and droop after its tenacious vigil—Leslie re-creates for me the dark odyssey of her psychoanalysis. (source)
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They were twelve, they were sixteen, they were quartets in separate motors bound on a quick Odyssey over Paris.
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"Well, well," said the lawyer, when I had quite done, "this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours."
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- She gave me a piercing look, and I wondered if she had seen him on one of his odysseys.† (source)
- I had never dealt directly with people who felt their lives enriched by weekly odysseys to wrestling matches.† (source)
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Others have posited that an unresolved Oedipal conflict was at the root of his fatal odyssey.
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Singbe told the tale of his odyssey that had begun nearly a year before.
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Sasaki asked a few questions about Louie's odyssey, then began reminiscing about USC, meals at the student union, ten-cent movies on campus.
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"Me," says Burres, "I thought Alex had lost his mind when he told us about his 'great Alaskan odyssey,' as he called it."
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- And like McCandless, upon embarking on his terminal odyssey, Ruess adopted a new name or, rather, a series of new names. (source)
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But there was a way to avoid such aggravation: He could simply abandon the Datsun and resume his odyssey on foot.
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- On April 15, 1992, Chris McCandless departed Carthage, South Dakota, in the cab of a Mack truck hauling a load of sunflower seeds: His "great Alaskan odyssey" was under way. (source)
- My friend, Wayne, wants me to stay working at the grain elevator through May and then go combining with him the entire summer, but I have my soul set entirely on my Alaskan Odyssey and hope to be on my way no later than April 15. (source)
- An Odyssey of the North, (source)
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He actually greeted both Miss Hastings and me as we began the next phase of our odyssey.
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- On the roof, he sipped paiyu cha deep into the night with his new friend the nurmadhar, hearing the story of Aslam's odyssey. (source)
- After surviving their odyssey, the last residents of Brolmo village arrived, exhausted and emaciated, in Skardu, where the military directed them to their new home. (source)
- I must admit to having mixed emotions as I awaited Jason Stevens' arrival for what I knew would be the beginning of our last monthly journey together in this yearlong odyssey of discovery. (source)
- On his third odyssey through the echoing halls of the crumbling Ministry of Finance, he met Afghanistan's deputy minister of finance, who threw up his hands when Mortenson asked him why Uzra and her teachers weren't receiving their pay. (source)
- Mortenson, who'd worked as an emergency room trauma nurse for the freedom the irregular hours gave him to pursue his climbing career, gave Fine injections of Decadron to ease the edema and the four already exhausted climbers began a forty-eight-hour odyssey of dragging and lowering him down craggy rock faces. (source)
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And for the first time in years, he had someone with whom he could discuss the odyssey he'd been on since he first set foot in Korphe.
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the odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
- The outskirts of Skardu, awash in pharing and starga, apricot and walnut orchards, announced that the odyssey along the Indus was over. (source)
- In Schaller's own book, Stones of Silence, he confesses that his treks through the Karakoram, which he called "the most rugged range on earth," were, for him, spiritual odysseys as well as scientific expeditions.† (source)
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The Odyssey as in: Homer's Odyssey
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Both Iliad and Odyssey are attributed to Homer.
Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten year circuitous and eventful journey home
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The Odyssey begins after the 10-year Trojan War (which was the subject of The Iliad).
The Odyssey = ancient Greek story (attributed to Homer) of the Odysseus' difficult journey home
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With his Odyssean saga featured in newspapers, magazines, and radio shows, he was a national sensation.
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Odyssean = like the epic Greek poem of Odysseus' long, circuitous, and eventful journey home
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One does not fulfill one's potential by listening to Scheherazade in a gilded hall, or by reading the Odyssey in one's den.
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The Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
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The Odyssey, an epic poem about a hero's journey home from war, ends with reunion and peace.
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I'd sit in the chair and read to him from various paperbacks I'd bring in, stuff like The Odyssey or One Thousand and One Nights.
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The Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
- She put aside the thriller and the book about Alexander the Great, hesitated — and picked up the Odyssey. (source)
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It was only later that I felt the loss-Fitzgerald's Odyssey, Wu's Final March, and a score of other epics which had survived my stroke now were shredded like cloud fragments in a high wind.
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Odyssey = Alexander Pope's translation of the epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC - attributed to Homer)
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As we now know, James Joyce envisioned every one of the eighteen episodes of the novel as a parallel to some incident or situation in The Odyssey.
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The Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
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Andros read Homer's Odyssey, captivated by the images of powerful bronze men doing battle on these islands.
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Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten year circuitous and eventful journey home
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I had Billy Budd, Martin Eden, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, and the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.
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The Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
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- Scouring his memory Max hit upon the Odyssey and remembered its isle-dwelling sorceress—the one who transformed men into swine. (source)
- Thus the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send; and he can both build and sail a boat, drive a furrow as straight as anyone, beat a young braggart at throwing the discus, challenge the Pheacian youth at boxing, wrestling or running; flay, skin, cut up and cook an ox, and be moved to tears by a song. (source)
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“Yes,” he says, closing his book. The Odyssey.
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The Odyssey = ancient Greek story (attributed to Homer) of the Odysseus' difficult journey home
- Finn knelt beside me and handed me my copy of The Odyssey. (source)
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It occurs when the boy who has been enchanted in the nursery by Stories from the Odyssey buckles down to really learning Greek.
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The Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
- Many tales isolate and greatly enlarge upon one or two of the typical elements of the full cycle (test motif, flight motif, abduction of the bride), others string a number of independent cycles into a single series (as in the Odyssey). (source)
- He built up a constant exchange of books among his companions, borrowing and lending in an intricate web, from Max Isaacs, from "Nosey" Schmidt, the butcher's son, who had all the rich adventures of the Rover Boys; he ransacked Gant's shelves at home, reading translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey at the same time as Diamond Dick, Buffalo Bill, and the Algers, and for the same reason; then, as the first years waned and the erotic gropings became more intelligible, he turned passionately to all romantic legendry, looking for women in whom blood ran hotly, whose breath was honey, and whose soft touch a spurting train of fire. (source)
- the oldest bone in the geological skeleton that underlies our soil, the true Armor, the sea, the land's end, the accursed region which Anatole France—an enchanter whose works our young friend ought to read—has so well depicted, beneath its eternal fogs, as though it were indeed the land of the Cimmerians in the Odyssey. (source)
- And in the Odyssey—that's a beautiful poem—there's a more wonderful giant than Goliath,—Polypheme, who had only one eye in the middle of his forehead; and Ulysses, a little fellow, but very wise and cunning, got a red-hot pine-tree and stuck it into this one eye, and made him roar like a thousand bulls. (source)
- It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings. (source)
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Thus communed these; while to their lowly dome,
The full-fed swine return'd with evening home;
Compell'd, reluctant, to the several sties,
With din obstreperous, and ungrateful cries.
-- Pope's Odyssey (source)Odyssey = Alexander Pope's translation of the epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC - attributed to Homer)
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I loved reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid; and I made some of the finest friends of my life....
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The Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
- Ulysses, as we know from our earlier discussion, is the very long story of a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904, its structure modeled on Homer's Odyssey (Ulysses being the Latin equivalent of the name of Homer's hero, Odysseus). (source)
- They were almost all books for grown-ups: a well-worn thriller, a book about snakes, another about Alexander the Great, the Odyssey. (source)
- As a result of these deprivations, I was able to recite all of Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey by the time I was six, compose a sestina before I could dress myself, and think in spiral fugue-verse before I ever interfaced with an AI. (source)
- Those names are drawn, of course, from The Iliad, although Walcott uses elements—parallels, persons, and situations—of both it and The Odyssey in his epic. (source)
- She'd take the bald-headed witches who turn children into mice — and The Odyssey, with the Cyclops and the enchantress who transforms his warriors into pigs. (source)
- Did everybody write the Odyssey? (source)
- In both The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer has characters say of other characters that they have "a heart of iron," iron being the newest and hardest metal known to men of the late Bronze Age. (source)
- We can never get all the way to the level of pure myth, even when a work like The Lord of the Rings or The Odyssey or The Old Man and the Sea feels "mythic," since even those works are displacements of myth. (source)
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With sheep and shaggy goats the porkers bled,
And the proud steer was on the marble spread;
With fire prepared, they deal the morsels round,
Wine rosy bright the brimming goblets crown'd.
Disposed apart, Ulysses shares the treat;
A trivet table and ignobler seat,
The Prince assigns--
-- Odyssey, Book XXI (source)Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten year circuitous and eventful journey home
- The words were no sooner out of my mouth than I saw that I had made another mistake; and I felt really annoyed with myself, as I did not want to go into a long explanation just then, or begin another series of Odyssean lies.† (source)
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Odyssey, xi. 306-317.
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Odyssey = epic poem of the Odysseus' ten-year circuitous and eventful journey home (circa 850 BC -- attributed to Homer)
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The Hindu epics, the Grecian, Chinese, Persian,
The Biblic books and prophets, and deep idyls of the Nazarene,
The Iliad, Odyssey, plots, doings, wanderings of Eneas,
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- King Alcinous, in Mr Pope's Odyssey, offers his daughter to Ulysses. (source)
- Indeed, it may be doubted whether Ulysses, who by the way seems to have had the best stomach of all the heroes in that eating poem of the Odyssey, ever made a better meal. (source)
- [*] See the 2d Odyssey, ver. (source)
- Mr Bayle (I think, in his article of Helen) imputes this, and with greater probability, to their violent love of glory; for the truth of which, we have the authority of him who of all others saw farthest into human nature, and who introduces the heroine of his Odyssey, the great pattern of matrimonial love and constancy, assigning the glory of her husband as the only source of her affection towards him. (source)
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- The odyssey began just after dawn on the first Monday in May.† (source)
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Kathy was loading up a few small bags in the back of the Odyssey.
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3 Whether the same poet composed both The Iliad and The Odyssey has been debated since antiquity, but need not concern us here.
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A little while later, a foul odor overtook the Odyssey.
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- In the Odyssey, she heard President Bush's weekly radio address. (source)
- A thousand miles away, Yuko's husband Ahmaad was driving the Odyssey. (source)
- If he had just gotten in the Odyssey with them! (source)
- By six a. m., Kathy had the Odyssey packed and the kids buckled in. (source)
- By then Kathy would have the Odyssey packed and ready in the driveway. (source)
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Now her house had become a sanctuary for families fleeing the storm, and when Kathy's Odyssey pulled into the driveway there were already a dozen or more people there, all of them Muslims from New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana and Mississippi.
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She wanted her own kids to know their aunts and uncles and cousins, and so the relief was profound when the Odyssey arrived at her brother's house in Baton Rouge at eleven-thirty.
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- She and her kids put away their sleeping bags and pillows and left in the Odyssey, intending to drive around most of the day, going to malls or restaurants—anything to kill time. (source)
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The Aeneid first tells Homer's Odyssey and then his Iliad.
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- This is how Chapman translated The Iliad (first in 1598), though he turned in his Odyssey (1614) to rhymed decasyllabic couplets. (source)
- Behind Nestor in backing up Agamemnon is Odysseus, whose character conforms to the brave, eloquent, and successful warrior that he is in The Odyssey. (source)
- 1 The immense story of Homer's reception is very well told in Howard Clark, Homer's Readers: A Historical Introduction to the Iliad and the Odyssey (Newark, 1981). (source)
- But Parry replied that the epithet is ornamental, being used of the earth also in The Odyssey (11.301), and need have no special connotation here.25 The problem for translators, then, is to know whether a given word is being used for effect and when it is more generic. (source)
- One of the earliest details preserved about Homer is that he was blind; singing would have been a plausible occupation for a blind man in archaic Greece, but the story could well have been inspired by the portrayal of a respected blind singer in the eighth book of The Odyssey. (source)
- In the high-classical culture of Athens, The Iliad, along with its sequel, The Odyssey, was memorized by schoolboys, performed to vast audiences in public arenas, and studied closely by scholars in lectures and monographs. (source)
- Compared both to a tower and to a stubborn mule as he steadfastly resists; the Trojans, he is less agile and voluble than Odysseus, and the poet knows the story (clearly alluded to in The Odyssey) that the two clashed after Akhilleus' death: when the army had to decide who would be awarded Akhilleus' immortal armor, it was Odysseus who won the contest, an insult that drove Aias to suicide. (source)
- Greek Epic in the Eighth Century B.C. We can glimpse the traditions behind The Iliad only indirectly, for it is the oldest Greek poem we have; linguists place it earlier than The Odyssey by about a generation (though our tools are not sharp enough to exclude the possibility that both poems were composed by a single, long-lived singer). (source)
- Such was his prestige that when Virgil aspired to compose the national Roman poem, he built his Aeneid squarely upon Homer: its first six books followed The Odyssey to tell how Aineias survived the fall of Troy and made his way to Italy, and the last six books closely refashioned The Iliad to recount the tragic war he fought there to found a new civilization. (source)
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