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Agamemnon (398-429a)

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That unjust man, the god in grapple throws.
Such an one, Paris goes
Within the Atreidai’s house —
Shamed the guest’s board by robbery of the spouse.
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And, leaving to her townsmen throngs a-spread
With shields, and spear-thrusts of sea-armament,
And bringing Ilion, in a dowry’s stead,
Destruction — swiftly through the gates she went,
Daring the undareable. But many a groan outbroke
From prophets of the House as thus they spoke.
Woe, woe the House, the House and Rulers, — woe
The marriage-bed and dints
A husband’s love imprints!
There she stands silent! meets no honour — no
Shame — sweetest still to see of things gone long ago!
And, through desire of one across the main,
A ghost will seem within the house to reign.
And hateful to the husband is the grace
Of well-shaped statues: from — in place of eyes
Those blanks — all Aphrodite dies.
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But dream-appearing mournful fantasies —
There they stand, bringing grace that’s vain.
For vain ’t is, when brave things one seems to view;
The fantasy has floated off, hands through;
Gone, that appearance, — nowise left to creep, —
On wings, the servants in the paths of sleep!
Woes, then, in household and on hearth, are such
As these—and woes surpassing these by much.
But not these only: everywhere —
For those who from the land

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