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Of Atreus: for that wife, the many-husbanded,
Appointing many a tug that tries the limb,
While the knee plays the prop in dust, while, shred
To morsels, lies the spear-shaft; in those grim
Marriage-prolusions when their Fury wed
Danaoi and Troes, both alike. Alls said:
Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed,
So shall they be fulfilled.
Not gently-grieving, not just doling out
The drops of expiation no, nor tears distilled
Shall he we know of bring the hard about
To soft that intense ire
At those mock rites unsanctified by fire.
But we pay nought here: through our flesh, age-weighed,
Left out from who gave aid
In that day, we remain,
Staying on staves a strength
The equal of a childs at length.
For when young marrow in the breast doth reign,
Thats the old mans match, Ares out of place
In either: but in oldest ages case,
Foliage a-fading, why, he wends his way
On three feet, and, no stronger than a child,
Wanders about gone wild,
A dream in day.
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But thou, Tundareus daughter, Klutaimnestra queen,
What need? What new? What having heard or seen,
By what announcements tidings, everywhere
Settest thou, round about, the sacrifice a-flare?
For, of all gods the city-swaying,
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