Along the shore of the loud-roaring sea.

Παρὰ θῖνα πολυφλοίσβοιο θαλάσσης.

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Note: Ezra Pound referred to this Homeric phrase as a "magnificent onomatopoeia, as of the rush of the waves on the sea-beach and their recession", and described it as "untranslatable" (in Literary Essays, p. 250).

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