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- And he started out of sleep, when he beheld the place desolate where the swift horses had stood, and beheld the men gasping in the death struggle; then he groaned aloud, and called out by name to his comrade dear.Book 10 (90% in)
There are no more uses of "desolate" in The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers).
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