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urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg002.perseus-eng2:72
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Though their children have many troubles in store for them, I envy them because they are too young to know of what noble fathers they have been bereft: but I pity those whose sons they were, as being too old to forget their own misfortune.

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