Twelve days earlier, d'Annunzio, ever attentive to the ritual of warfare, has taught his squadron a new battle cry. Instead of the 'Ip, Ip, Ip, Urrah!' which he finds crude and barbarous, he has ordered them to shout the Greek: 'Eia, Eia, Eia, Alala!' It is, he claims, the battle yell of Achilles.
L. Hughes-Hallet, The Pike (2013), 38
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