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Eumenides (330-335)

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maddened, destroying the mind, the Furies hymn, a spell to bind the soul, not tuned to the lyre, withering the life of mortals.
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Chorus
For this is the office that relentless
Fate spun for us to hold securely: when rash murders of kin come upon mortals, we pursue them until they go under the earth; and after death,

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