Book 24:718-804
Three women's laments; the final line: 'Such was the funeral of Hector, breaker of horses' (or 'tamer of horses').
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From The Iliad by Homer
The Iliad closes with the lamentations of Andromache, Hecuba, and Helen, and the burial of Hector, breaker of horses.
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