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Pygmies

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Canonical name
Pygmies
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Collective
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Location presence

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Claims

1
·Simile

In the comparison, the Pygmies face death and destruction from the migrating birds.

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to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies

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1
·Simile
the Pygmies

Passage preview

Book 3 · Passage 1

When the companies were thus arrayed, each under its own captain, the Trojans advanced as a flight of wild fowl or cranes that scream overhead when rain and winter drive them over the flowing waters of Oceanus to bring death and destruction on the Pygmies, and they wrangle in the air as they fly; but the Achaeans marched silently, in high heart, and minded to stand by one another.