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Libation Bearers (630-640)

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and in woman a spirit that shrinks from audacious deeds.
631
Chorus
Indeed the Lemnian[*] holds first place among evils in story: it has long been told with groans as an abominable calamity. Men compare each new horror to Lemnian troubles;
and because of a woeful deed abhorred by the gods a race has disappeared, cast out in infamy from among mortals. For no man reveres what is hated by the gods. Is there one of these tales I have gathered that I do not justly cite?
639
Chorus
But the keen and bitter sword is near the breast and drives home its blow at the bidding of Justice.
For truly the injustice of him who has unjustly transgressed the sovereign majesty of Zeus

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