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[108] Argos here, from its opposition to the islands, can hardly mean less than the whole of the mainland over which the suzerainty of Agamemnon extended. See the remarks of Thucydides, i. 9, where he calls this passage the “σκήπτρου παράδοσις”. This famous line seems to have reached even the Morte d' Arthur — ‘king he was of all Ireland and of many isles,’ i. 24.

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