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A list of all pages that have property "Text"Text" is a predefined property that represents text of arbitrary length and is provided by <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_properties">Semantic MediaWiki</a>." with value "&lt;p&gt;Translator Chapman described a scene in which several virgins play stool-ball near a river while Ulysses sleeps nearby: "The Queene now (for the upstroke) strooke the ball/Quite wide off th' other maids; and made it fall/Amidst the whirlpools. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Chapman, George, &lt;u&gt;The whole works of Homer: prince of poets, in his Iliads, and Odysses&lt;/u&gt; [London, 1616], per David Block, &lt;u&gt;Baseball Before We Knew It&lt;/u&gt;, page 168.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Steel and Lyttelton indicate that Chapman's translation may date "as early as 1614," and say report that Chapman calls the fragment "a stoolball chance." See A.G. Steel and R. H. Lyttelton, &lt;u&gt;Cricket,&lt;/u&gt; (Longmans Green, London, 1890) 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; edition, page 2. &lt;b&gt;Note:&lt;/b&gt; The year of the translation needs to be confirmed;. It would be interesting to see how other translators have treated this scene.&lt;/p&gt;". Since there have been only a few results, also nearby values are displayed.

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