“A thousand fires were burning on the plain, and beside each one sat fifty men in the glow of the blaze.”
The hint
A thousand fires on the plain, and beside each one a man who does not sleep. Five letters of the night's work stand first in line; the rest follow in order.
The cipher
QHLRFLHJ
— Homer · The Iliad, VIII · c. 750 BCE
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