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Eetion’s massive iron quoit

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Eetion’s massive iron quoit
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Distinctive iron mass with named provenance and durable value.

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Eetion’s massive iron quoit, carried away by Achilles, could supply a household with iron for five years.

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“the massive iron quoit which mighty Eetion had erewhile been used to hurl, until Achilles had slain him and carried it off in his ships along with other spoils. He stood up and said among the Argives, ‘Stand forward, you who would essay this contest. He who wins it will have a store of iron that will last him five years as they go rolling round, and if his fair fields lie far from a town his shepherd or ploughman will not have to make a journey to buy iron, for he will have a stock of it on his own premises.’”

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“the massive iron quoit which mighty Eetion had erewhile been used to hurl”
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“his comrades carried the prize for him and set it on board his ship”

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Book 23 · Passage 60

Achilles next offered the massive iron quoit which mighty Eetion had erewhile been used to hurl, until Achilles had slain him and carried it off in his ships along with other spoils. He stood up and said among the Argives, ‘Stand forward, you who would essay this contest. He who wins it will have a store of iron that will last him five years as they go rolling round, and if his fair fields lie far from a town his shepherd or ploughman will not have to make a journey to buy iron, for he will have a stock of it on his own premises.’