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Then did it dart until it reached the outpost
Mount Arachnaios here, the citys neighbour;
And then darts to this roof of the Atreidai
This light of Ides fire not unforefathered!
Such are the rules prescribed the flambeau-bearers:
He beats thats first and also last in running.
Such is the proof and token I declare thee,
My husband having sent me news from Troia.
CHOROS.
The gods, indeed, anon will I pray, woman!
But now, these words to hear, and sate my wonder
Thoroughly, I am fain if twice thou tell them.
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KLUTAIMNESTRA.
Troia do the Achaioi hold, this same day.
I think a noise no mixture reigns i the city.
Sour wine and unguent pour thou in one vessel
Standers-apart, not lovers, wouldst thou style them:
And so, of captives and of conquerors, partwise
The voices are to hear, of fortune diverse.
For those, indeed, upon the bodies prostrate
Of husbands, brothers, children upon parents
The old men, from a throat that s free no longer,
Shriekingly wail the death-doom of their dearest:
While these the after-battle hungry labour,
Which prompts night-faring, marshals them to breakfast
On the towns store, according to no billet
Of sharing, but as each drew lot of fortune.
In the spear-captured Troic habitations
House they already: from the frosts upmethral
And dews delivered, will they, luckless creatures,
Without a watch to keep, slumber all night through.
And if they fear the gods, the city-guarders,

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