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Ay, and, for me, myself will dance a prelude,
For, that my masters dice drop right, Ill reckon:
Since thrice-six has it thrown to me, this signal.
Well, may it hap that, as he comes, the loved hand
O the households lord I may sustain with this hand!
As for the rest, Im mute: on tongue a big ox
Has trodden. Yet this House, if voice it take should,
Most plain would speak. So, willing I myself speak
To those who know: to who know not Im blankness.
40
CHOROS.
The tenth year this, since Priamos great match,
King Menelaos, Agamemnon King,
The strenuous yoke-pair of the Atreidais honour
Two-throned, two-sceptred, whereof Zeus was donor
Did from this land the aid, the armament despatch,
The thousand-sailored force of Argives clamouring
Aresfrom out the indignant breast, as fling
Passion forth vultures which, because of grief
Away, as are their young ones, with the thief,
Lofty above their brood-nests wheel in ring,
Row round and round with oar of either wing,
Lament the bedded chicks, lost labour that was love:
Which hearing, one above
Whether Apollon, Pan or Zeus that wail,
Sharp-piercing bird-shriek of the guests who fare
Housemates with gods in air
Suchanone sends, against who these assail,
What, late-sent, shall not fail
Of punishing Erinus. Here as there,
The Guardian of the Guest, Zeus, the excelling one,
Sends against Alexandros either son
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