incantation for stopping hemorrhage

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After skilfully bandaging, with an incantation, the dark blood they staunched.
-- my rendering of Homer's Odyssey, Bk.19, Line 457

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Odysseus and the boar

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Hear the screams of Odysseus and the boar on Mount Parnassus as their points penetrate each other in the windy dell!

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[Odyssey XIX,428-454]

monostich oblique

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Can you dig the oblique surge in my diffident verge ?

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