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For, willing, no one wears a yoke thats servile:
And she, of many valuables, outpicked
The flower, the armys gift, myself has followed.
So, since to hear thee, I am brought about thus,
I go into the palace purples treading.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
There is the sea and what man shall exhaust it?
Feeding much purples worth-its-weight-in-silver
Dye, ever fresh and fresh, our garments tincture;
At home, such wealth, king, we begin by gods help
With having, and to lack, the household knows not.
Of many garments had I vowed a treading
(In oracles if fore-enjoined the household)
Of this dear soul the safe-return-price scheming!
For, root existing, foliage goes up houses,
Oerspreading shadow against Seirios dog-star;
And, thou returning to the hearth domestic,
Warmth, yea, in winter dost thou show returning.
And when, too, Zeus works, from the green-grape acrid,
Vine then, already, cool in houses cometh
The perfect man his home perambulating!
Zeus, Zeus Perfecter, these my prayers perfect thou!
Thy care be yea of things thou mayst make perfect!
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CHOROS.
Wherefore to me, this fear
Groundedly stationed here
Fronting my heart, the portent-watcher flits she?
Wherefore should prophet-play
The uncalled and unpaid lay,
Nor having spat forth fear, like bad dreams sits she
On the minds throne beloved well-suasive Boldness?
For time, since, by a throw of all the hands,

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