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And pays a debt by public curse incurred.
And ever with me as about to hear
A something night-involved remains my fear:
Since of the many-slayers not
Unwatching are the gods.
The black Erinues, at due periods
Whoever gains the lot
Of fortune with no right
Him, by lifes strain and stress
Back-again-beaten from success,
They strike blind: and among the out-of-sight
For who has got to be, avails no might.
The being praised outrageously
Is grave, for at the eyes of such an one
Is launched, from Zeus, the thunder-stone.
Therefore do I decide
For so much and no more prosperity
Than of his envy passes unespied.
Neither a city-sacker would I be,
Nor life, myself by others captive, see.
475
A swift report has gone our city through,
From fire, the good-news messenger: if true,
Who knows? Or is it not a god-sent lie?
Who is so childish and deprived of sense
That, having, at announcements of the flame
Thus novel, felt his own heart fired thereby,
He then shall at a change of evidence,
Be worsted just the same?
It is conspicuous in a womans nature,
Before its view to take a grace for granted:

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