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Updated: May 6, 2025

Mercury's wand put to sleep all the guards, and without hindrance he introduced Priam into the tent where Achilles sat, attended hy two of his warriors. The old king threw himself at the feet of Achilles and kissed those terrible hands which had destroyed so many of his sons. "Think, O Achilles," he said, "of thy own father, full of days like me, and trembling on the gloomy verge of life.

Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable

Since 1830, when Belgium seceded from the Netherlands, it, too, has been held 'an independent and perpetually neutral state, that status being solemnly declared in a convention signed hy Great Britain, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia. Yet the first war move of Germany was to overrun these countries, seize their railroads, bombard their cities and lay waste their territories.

Logan Marshall - A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict