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Libation Bearers (595-610)

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and of the reckless passions of women hardened of soul, partners of the woes of mortals? Inordinate passion, overmastering the female,
gains a fatal victory over the wedded unions of beasts and humans alike.
602
Chorus
Let whoever is not flighty in his wits know this, when he has learned of the device of a lit brand contrived
by Thestius’ heartless daughter:[*] she destroyed her own child by burning the charred brand of the same age as he when, coming from his mother’s womb, he cried out,
and it aged in pace with him through his life to the day decreed by fate.

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