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To melodize thy sorrows else, in singing,
Calamitous, death-bringing!
And of all this the end
I am without resource to apprehend
1178
KASSANDRA.
Well then, the oracle from veils no longer
Shall be outlooking, like a bride new-married:
But bright it seems, against the suns uprisings
Breathing, to penetrate thee: so as, wave-like,
To wash against the rays a woe much greater
Than this. I will no longer teach by riddles.
And witness, running with me, that of evils
Done long ago, I nosing track the footstep!
For, this same roof here never quits a Choros
One-voiced, not well-tuned since no well it utters:
And truly having drunk, to get more courage,
Mans blood the Komos keeps within the household
Hard to be sent outside of sister Furies:
They hymn their hymn within the house close sitting
The first beginning curse: in turn spit forth at
The Brothers bed, to him who spurned it hostile.
Have I missed aught, or hit I like a bowman?
False prophet am I, knock at doors, a babbler?
Henceforward witness, swearing now, I know not
By others word the old sins of this household!
CHOROS.
And how should oath, bond honourably binding,
Become thy cure? No less I wonder at thee
That thou, beyond sea reared, a strange-tongued city
Shouldst hit in speaking, just as if thou stoodst by!
1202
KASSANDRA.
Prophet Apollon put me in this office.
CHOROS.
What, even though a god, with longing smitten?

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