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007 - The Furies Part 2 · Oresteia

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  Speaker 1: Section Sex of the Oristea.
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  Speaker 2: visit LibriVox dot org. The Oristea by Eschylus, translated by E. D. A.
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  Speaker 1: Moore'shead section Sex the Furies, Part two. Athena re enters
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  Speaker 1: with twelve Athenian citizens.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Harald, make proclaim, Bid all men come. Then let
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  Speaker 3: the shrill blast of the tyrene, trump fulfilled with mortal
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  Speaker 3: breath through the wide air peal A loud summons, bidding
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  Speaker 3: all men heed, for till my judges fill this judgment seat.
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  Speaker 3: Silence behooves that this whole city learn what for all
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  Speaker 3: time mine ordinance commands, and these men that the cause
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  Speaker 3: be judged aright.
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  Speaker 1: Apollo approaches, O King Apollo rule. What is thine own
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  Speaker 1: this thing?
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  Speaker 4: What share?
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  Speaker 5: Pertains to thee?
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  Speaker 6: First as witness, Come I, for this man is suppliant
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  Speaker 6: of mine by sacred right, guest of my holy hearth,
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  Speaker 6: and cleansed by me of blood guilt. Then to set
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  Speaker 6: me at his side, and in his cause bear part
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  Speaker 6: as part I bore erst in his deed, whereby his
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  Speaker 6: mother fell. Let whoso knoweth now announce the cause athena
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  Speaker 6: to the chorus.
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  Speaker 3: Tis I announce the cause? First speech be yours. For
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  Speaker 3: rightfully shall they whose plaint is tried tell the tale
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  Speaker 3: first and set the matter clear?
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  Speaker 4: Though we be man anny brief shall be our tale
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  Speaker 4: to orestes answer thou, setting word to match with words.
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  Speaker 5: And first of all, hast thou thy mother.
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  Speaker 7: Slaying I slew her? I deny no word hereof.
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  Speaker 4: Three this is one thou vauntest thee, but or no
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  Speaker 4: final fall?
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  Speaker 5: Yet, must thou tell the manner of that deed?
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  Speaker 7: Drawn sword in hand, I gashed her neck? Tis told?
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  Speaker 5: But by whose word? Whose craft? Impelled?
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  Speaker 7: By oracles of him who here attests me?
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  Speaker 5: The prophet God bade thee thy mother slay?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and through him less ill I fared till.
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  Speaker 4: Now if the vote ripley, thou shalt change that word.
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  Speaker 7: Strong is my hope, my buried sire shall.
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  Speaker 5: Aid go to now trust dead a mattress.
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  Speaker 7: Yea, for in her combined two stains of.
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  Speaker 5: Sin, how speak this to the judge's.
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  Speaker 7: Mind slain her husband? She did slay my sire.
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  Speaker 5: Therefore thou livest death assoils her deed.
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  Speaker 7: Then while she lived, why didst thou hunt her?
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  Speaker 8: Not?
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  Speaker 5: She was not kin by blood?
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  Speaker 7: To him? She su and I am I by blood
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  Speaker 7: my mother's kin.
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  Speaker 5: Oh cursed with murder's guilt. How else wert thou though
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  Speaker 5: the burden of her womb? Dost thou forswear thy mother's
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  Speaker 5: kinship closest bond of love?
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  Speaker 7: It is thine hour Apollo, speak the law a buring.
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  Speaker 7: If this deed were justly done, For done it is
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  Speaker 7: and clear and undenied. But if to THEE this murderer's
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  Speaker 7: cause seem right or wrongful, speak that I to these
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  Speaker 7: may tell.
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  Speaker 6: To you Athena's mighty council court justly for justice. Will
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  Speaker 6: I plead even I the prophet god, nor cheat you
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  Speaker 6: by one word, for never spake I from my prophets,
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  Speaker 6: seat one word of man, of woman, or of state.
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  Speaker 6: Save what the father of Olympian gods commanded unto me.
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  Speaker 6: I read you. Then, bethink you of my plea, how
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  Speaker 6: strong it stands, And follow the decree of Zeus, our sire,
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  Speaker 6: For oaths prevail not over Zeu's command.
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  Speaker 5: Go go too, Thou sayest that from Zeus befell the oracle,
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  Speaker 5: that this Orestes bade, with vengeance quit the slaying of
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  Speaker 5: his sire and whole was not his mother's.
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  Speaker 6: Rite, akin yea, for it stands not with a common
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  Speaker 6: death that he should die a chieftain and a king
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  Speaker 6: deck'd with the scepter which high Heaven confers, die, and
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  Speaker 6: by female hands, not smitten down by a far shooting bow,
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  Speaker 6: held stalwartly by some strong amazon. Another doom was his
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  Speaker 6: o palace here, and ye who sit in judgment to
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  Speaker 6: discern this thing aright, She with a specious voice of
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  Speaker 6: welcome true held him returning from the mighty mart where
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  Speaker 6: war for life gives fame triumphant home then o'er the labor.
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  Speaker 6: As he bathed himself, she spread from head to foot
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  Speaker 6: a covering net, and in the endless mesh of cunning
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  Speaker 6: robes and wound and trapped her lord and smote him down. Lo,
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  Speaker 6: ye have heard what doom this chieftain met, the Majesty
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  Speaker 6: of Greece, the fleet's high lord, Such as I tell it,
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  Speaker 6: Let it gall your ears, who stand as judges to
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  Speaker 6: decide this cause zeus.
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  Speaker 4: As thou as first crimes. Yet he of his act
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  Speaker 4: cast change his father Cronus old, how suits that deed
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  Speaker 4: with that which now ye.
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  Speaker 5: Tell, oh ye judge, I bid ye are my.
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  Speaker 6: Words, oh monsters, loathed of all o scorn of gods,
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  Speaker 6: He that hath bound may loose a cure. There is
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  Speaker 6: yea many a plan that can unbind the chain. But
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  Speaker 6: when the thirsty dust sucks up man's blood, once shed
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  Speaker 6: in death, he shall arise no more, no chance nor charm.
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  Speaker 6: For this, my sire, hath wrought all else there is.
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  Speaker 6: He molds and shifts at will, not scant of strength
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  Speaker 6: nor breath. Whate'er he do think?
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  Speaker 4: Yet, for what acquittal thou dost plead, he who hath
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  Speaker 4: shed a mother's kindred blood?
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  Speaker 5: Shall he and argust dwell dwelt his sire?
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  Speaker 4: How shall he stand before the city, How share the
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  Speaker 4: clansman's holy lustera ball?
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  Speaker 6: This too, I answer, mark a soothfast word.
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  Speaker 3: Not.
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  Speaker 6: The true parent is the woman's womb that bears the child.
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  Speaker 6: She doth but nurse the seed new sown. The male
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  Speaker 6: is parent she for him as stranger. For a stranger
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  Speaker 6: hoards the germ of life. Unless the god its promised
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  Speaker 6: blight and proof hereof before you, I will set birth
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  Speaker 6: may from father's without mothers be see at your side
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  Speaker 6: a witness of the same Athena, daughter of Olympian Zeus,
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  Speaker 6: never within the darkness of the womb, fostered nor fashioned,
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  Speaker 6: but a bud more bright than any goddess in her
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  Speaker 6: breast might bear. And I O pallace, how soe'er I
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  Speaker 6: may henceforth will glorify thy town, thy clan. And for
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  Speaker 6: this end have sent my suppliant here unto thy shrine,
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  Speaker 6: that he from this time forth be loyal unto thee.
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  Speaker 6: For evermore, O Goddess Queen, and thou unto thy side,
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  Speaker 6: mayst win and hold him faithful and his line, And
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  Speaker 6: that for I this pledge and troth remain to children's
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  Speaker 6: children of Athenian seed.
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  Speaker 3: Enough is said. I bid the judges now, with pure intent,
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  Speaker 3: deliver just award.
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  Speaker 4: We too have shot every chaft of the speech, and
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  Speaker 4: now abad to hear the doom of law.
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  Speaker 1: Athena to Apollo and Orestes, say.
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  Speaker 3: How ordaining shall I escape your blame?
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  Speaker 6: I spake ye heard enough, O stranger men, heed well
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  Speaker 6: your oath as ye decide the cause.
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  Speaker 3: Men of Athens, Ye who first do judge the law
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  Speaker 3: of bloodshed? Hear me now ordain here to all time,
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  Speaker 3: for Aegeus's attic host shall stand this council court of
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  Speaker 3: judges sworn here the tribunal set on Ari's Hill, where
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  Speaker 3: camped of old the tented Amazons. What time in hate
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  Speaker 3: of theseus they assailed Athens and set against her citadel
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  Speaker 3: a counterwork of new sky pointing towers, and there to
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  Speaker 3: ares held their sacrifice. Where now the rock hath name
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  Speaker 3: even Ari's Hill. And hence shall Reverence and her kinsman
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  Speaker 3: fear pass to each free man's heart by day and
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  Speaker 3: night in joining, Thou shalt do no unjust thing, so
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  Speaker 3: long as law stands as it stood of old, unmowed
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  Speaker 3: by civic change. Look you, the spring is pure, but
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  Speaker 3: foul it once with influx, vile and muddy clay, and
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  Speaker 3: none can drink thereof. Therefore, o citizens, I bid ye
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  Speaker 3: bow in Awe to this command. Let no man live
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  Speaker 3: uncurbed by law, nor curbed by tyranny, nor banish Ye
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  Speaker 3: the monarchy of Awe, beyond the walls, untouch'd by fear divine,
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  Speaker 3: No man doth justice in the world of men. Therefore,
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  Speaker 3: in purity and wholly dread, stand and revere. So shall
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  Speaker 3: ye have and hold a saving bulwark of the state
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  Speaker 3: and land, such as no man hath ever elsewhere known,
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  Speaker 3: nor in Pharcythia, nor in Pelop's realm. Thus I ordain
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  Speaker 3: it now a council court, pure and unsullied by the
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  Speaker 3: lust of gain, sacred and swift to vengeance, wakeful ever
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  Speaker 3: to champion men who sleep the country's guard. Thus have
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  Speaker 3: I spoken, thus to mine own clan, commended it forever,
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  Speaker 3: Ye who judge, arise, take each his vote, meet out
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  Speaker 3: the right your oath, revering lo my word is said.
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  Speaker 1: The twelve judges come forward, one by one to the
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  Speaker 1: urns of decision. The first votes, as each of the
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  Speaker 1: others follow. The chorus, and Apollos speak alternately.
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  Speaker 9: I ye, well, beware, nor to shame and aught discree
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  Speaker 9: this company.
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  Speaker 6: Of hell, I too would warn you. Fear mine oracles
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  Speaker 6: from zeus they are, nor make them void of fruit.
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  Speaker 5: Pre subeus claim blood, guilt, to judge false head. Forth
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  Speaker 5: thine oracle shall be failed.
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  Speaker 6: Then the counsels of my sire when turned Ixion, first
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  Speaker 6: of slayers to his side.
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  Speaker 1: These are but words.
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  Speaker 4: But I if justice failed me, will haunt this land
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  Speaker 4: in grim and deadly.
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  Speaker 6: Deed, scorn of the younger and the elder gods art
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  Speaker 6: thou tis I that shall prevail Anon.
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  Speaker 4: Thou old infer halls or reaching fate to make immortal debtless.
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  Speaker 6: Was it not well my worshiper to aid? Then, most
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  Speaker 6: of all, when hardest was the need.
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  Speaker 5: I say.
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  Speaker 6: Life the deities, I say, thou shalt Anon, thy pleadings foiled,
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  Speaker 6: spit venom vainly on thine enemies.
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  Speaker 5: God agent right declaim your law not shall bless your states.
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  Speaker 3: Or sir, mine is the right to add the final vote,
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  Speaker 3: And I award it to arrestees. Cause for me no
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  Speaker 3: mother bore within her womb, and save for wedlock evermore eschewed.
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  Speaker 3: I vouch myself the champion of the man, not of
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  Speaker 3: the woman. Yea with all my soul in heart, as
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  Speaker 3: birth a father's child alone. Thus will I not too
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  Speaker 3: heinously regard a woman's death, who did her husband slay
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  Speaker 3: the guardian of her home? And if the votes equal
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  Speaker 3: do fall orestes shall prevail. Ye of the judges who
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  Speaker 3: are named thereto swiftly shake forth the lots from either urn.
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  Speaker 1: Two judges come forward, one to each urn.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, bright Apollo, what shall be the end?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, nights.
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  Speaker 7: Now shall my doom be life or strangling chords, and
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  Speaker 7: mine lost honor?
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  Speaker 9: Or?
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  Speaker 6: Oh stranger judges some aright the count of votes cast forth,
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  Speaker 6: and parting them take heed, ye err not in decision.
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  Speaker 6: The default of one vote only bringeth ruined deep one
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  Speaker 6: cast aright doth establish house and home.
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  Speaker 3: Behold, this man is free from guilt of blood, for
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  Speaker 3: half the votes condemn him. Half set free.
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  Speaker 7: Oh palace, light and safety of my home. Thou thou
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  Speaker 7: hast given me back to dwell once more in that
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  Speaker 7: my fatherland, amerst of which I wandered. Now shall a
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  Speaker 7: Grecian lips say this? The man is argive once again
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  Speaker 7: and dwells again within his father's wealthy hall, by pallace,
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  Speaker 7: saved by Loxius and by him the great third Savior
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  Speaker 7: Zeus omnipotent, who thus, in pity for my father's fate,
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  Speaker 7: doth pluck me from my doom. Beholding these confederates of
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  Speaker 7: my mother, lo I pass to mine own home, but
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  Speaker 7: proffering this vow unto thy land and people. Nevermore, through
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  Speaker 7: all the manifold years of time to be, shall any
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  Speaker 7: chieftain of mine argive land bear hitherward his spears for fight, arraide,
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  Speaker 7: For we, though lapp'd in earth, we then shall lie
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  Speaker 7: by thwart adversities. Will work our will on them who
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  Speaker 7: shall transgress this oath of mind, paths of despair and journeyings,
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  Speaker 7: ill starved for their ordaining till their task they rue.
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  Speaker 7: But if this oath be rightly kept to them, will
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  Speaker 7: we the dead be full of grace? The while with
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  Speaker 7: loyal league they honor Pallace's town. And now farewell thou
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  Speaker 7: and thy cities, folk, firm, be thine arms grasped, closing
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  Speaker 7: with thy foes, and strong to save, bring victory to thy.
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  Speaker 1: Spear arrestes exits with Apollo, whoa.
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  Speaker 5: You, younger gods, the agent right rent it from my hands.
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  Speaker 5: I am disired of you thrust to scorn. But heavily
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  Speaker 5: my wrath shall this land, flinging forth, blast and.
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  Speaker 4: Burn venom of vengeance that shall work such gains as
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  Speaker 4: I have suffered.
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  Speaker 5: Where that dew shall fall, shall leafless blight arise, wasting
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  Speaker 5: Earth's offspring justice, Hear my call and throw all the
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  Speaker 5: land undeadly wise.
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  Speaker 10: Shall scatter venom to exude again in pestilence on man.
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  Speaker 10: What cls me now indeed of good unto this land,
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  Speaker 10: what dark despite a lack a lack for nor are
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  Speaker 10: we a bitter injury, have borne a lack o sisters,
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  Speaker 10: a dishonored rude of mother Knight.
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  Speaker 3: Nay bow ye to my words chafe not nor moan.
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  Speaker 3: Ye are not worsted nor disgraced. Behold with balanced vote.
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  Speaker 3: The cause had issue fair, nor in the end did
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  Speaker 3: aught dishonor thee. But thus the will of Zeus shone
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  Speaker 3: clearly forth, and his own prophet, God avouched the same
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  Speaker 3: orestes slew his slaying is atoned. Therefore I pray you
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  Speaker 3: not upon this land shoot forth the dart of vengeance
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  Speaker 3: be appeased, nor blast the land with blight, nor loose
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  Speaker 3: thereon drops of eternal venom direfold darts, wasting and marring
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  Speaker 3: nature's seed of growth. For I, the Queen of Athens
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  Speaker 3: sacred right, do pledge to you a holy sanctuary deep
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  Speaker 3: in the heart of this my land, made just by
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  Speaker 3: your indwelling presence, while ye sit hard by your sacred
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  Speaker 3: shrines that gleam with oil of sacrifice, and by this
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  Speaker 3: folk adored.
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  Speaker 4: Whoe on you, younger God, the ancient right have rented
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  Speaker 4: from my hands. I am dishonored of you, thrust to scorn,
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  Speaker 4: But heavily my wrath shall on this land, fling forth
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  Speaker 4: that drops such blast and burn venom that shall work
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  Speaker 4: such spain as I have heard, where that you shall fall.
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  Speaker 5: Shall light arise, wasting off, bring justice.
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  Speaker 4: Hear my call, and through all the land deadly wise.
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  Speaker 5: To exude again in pestilence of men? What deed of
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  Speaker 5: blood this land?
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  Speaker 4: What dark de fight a lack a lack for Nor
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  Speaker 4: are we have borne.
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  Speaker 11: A lack o sisters dishonored, brood knight dishonored? Are ye
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  Speaker 11: not turn not I pray as goddesses your swelling wrath
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  Speaker 11: on men, nor make the friendly earth despiteful to them,
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  Speaker 11: I too have zeus for champion. Tis enough I only
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  Speaker 11: of all goddesses do know to ope the chamber where
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  Speaker 11: his thunderbolts lie stored and sealed. But here is no
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  Speaker 11: such need, nay be appeased, nor cast upon the ground.
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  Speaker 11: The malice of thy tongue to blast the world. Calm thou,
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  Speaker 11: thy bitter wrath's black inward surge, for high shall be
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  Speaker 11: thine honor set beside me forever in this land whose
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  Speaker 11: fertile lap shall pour its teeming first fruits unto you,
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  Speaker 11: gifts for fair childbirth and for wedlock's crown. Thus, honored,
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  Speaker 11: praise my spoken pledge.
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  Speaker 4: For I I it is earth to dwell, ancient of
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  Speaker 4: days and wisdom. I breathe for poisoned breath of frenzied.
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  Speaker 5: Iron, O Earth, whoa whoe for thee for me? From
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  Speaker 5: side to side? What pains heart? O mother night?
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  Speaker 4: My wrath, my agony from ancient God have thrust and
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  Speaker 4: brought me to the dust.
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  Speaker 7: Whoa whoe is me?
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  Speaker 5: With crath invisible?
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  Speaker 3: Older art thou than I? And I will bear with
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  Speaker 3: this thy fury. No, although thou be more wise and
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  Speaker 3: ancient wisdom, yet have I from Zeus no scantid measure
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  Speaker 3: of the same. Wherefore take heed unto this prophecy. If
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  Speaker 3: to another land of alien men, ye go too late,
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  Speaker 3: Shall ye feel longing deep for mine? The rolling tides
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  Speaker 3: of time bring round a day of brighter glory for
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  Speaker 3: this town, And thou enshrined in honor by the halls
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  Speaker 3: where dwelt Erectheus shalt a worship win from men and
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  Speaker 3: from the train of womankind greater than any tribe elsewhere,
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  Speaker 3: shall pay cast thou not therefore on this soil of mine,
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  Speaker 3: whet stones that sharpen souls to blood shedding, the burning
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  Speaker 3: goads of youthful hearts made hot with frenzy of the spirit,
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  Speaker 3: not of wine nor pluck, as tower the heart from
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  Speaker 3: cocks that strive to set it in the breasts of
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  Speaker 3: citizens of mine, a war God's spirit keen for fight,
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  Speaker 3: made stern against their country and their kin. The man
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  Speaker 3: who grievously doth lust for fame, war full immitigable, let
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  Speaker 3: him wage against the stranger. But of kindred birds, I
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  Speaker 3: hold the challenge hateful, such the boon. I proffer THEE
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  Speaker 3: within this land of lands, most loved of gods, with me,
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  Speaker 3: to show and share fair mercy, gratitude, and grace as fair.
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  Speaker 4: Aye all days and wisdom. I breathe for poison, friends,
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  Speaker 4: and ire o earth, who wo for THEE for.
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  Speaker 5: Me from side to side? What pain her mother, my wrath,
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  Speaker 5: mine agony? Who move from my agent thrust and brought
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  Speaker 5: me to the dust. Woa, woe, woe is me? With
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  Speaker 5: craft invincible?
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  Speaker 3: I will not weary of soft words to THEE that
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  Speaker 3: never mayst thou say, behold me spurned an elder by
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  Speaker 3: a younger deity, and from this land rejected and forlorn,
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  Speaker 3: unhonored by the men who dwell therein. But if persuasion's
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  Speaker 3: grace be sacred to thee soft in the soothing accents
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  Speaker 3: of my tongue, tarry I pray thee. Yet, if go
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  Speaker 3: thou wilt not rightfully wilt thou on this my town
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  Speaker 3: sway down the scale that beareth wrath and teen or
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  Speaker 3: wasting plague upon this foot tis thine? If so thou
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  Speaker 3: wilt inheritance to be of this my land, it's utmost
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  Speaker 3: grace to win.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Queen, what refuge dost thou promise me?
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  Speaker 3: Refuge untouched by bail? Take thou my boon?
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  Speaker 5: What if I take it shall honor be?
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  Speaker 3: No house shall prosper without grace of thine?
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  Speaker 5: Canst thou achieve? And such to me?
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  Speaker 3: Yay for my hand shall bless thy worshippers?
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  Speaker 5: And wilt thou pledge me this?
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  Speaker 3: For turn yea none can bid me pledge beyond my power.
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  Speaker 5: Lo I desist from wrath appeaces by thee.
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  Speaker 3: Then in the land's heart shalt thou win thee friends?
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  Speaker 5: What chance dost be made to greet the land.
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  Speaker 3: Such as aspires towards a victory, unrude by any chance,
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  Speaker 3: from breast of earth, from wave from sky. And let
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  Speaker 3: the wild wind's breath pass with soft sunlight, or the
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  Speaker 3: lap of land strong wax, the fruits of earth, fair teem,
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  Speaker 3: the kine, unfailing. For my town's prosperity and constant be
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  Speaker 3: the growth of mortal seed. But more and more root
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  Speaker 3: out the impious. For as a gardener fosters what he sows,
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  Speaker 3: so foster I this race, whom righteousness doth fend from sorrow,
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  Speaker 3: such the proffered boon. But I if wars must be,
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  Speaker 3: and their loud clash and carnage, for my town will
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  Speaker 3: ne'er endure that aught, but victory shall crown her fame,
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  Speaker 3: no I.
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  Speaker 5: Accept it at her very side, doth pas mean? Well,
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  Speaker 5: I will not wrong the city of her pride, which
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  Speaker 5: Zeus and as hold Heaven's earthly.
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  Speaker 12: Citadel, loved home of Grecian gods, the young, the old,
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  Speaker 12: the sanctuary divine, the shield of every shrine for Athens,
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  Speaker 12: I say, for a gracious prophecy, the glory of the
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  Speaker 12: sunnight and.
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  Speaker 4: The size shall bid from earth arise warm wavelets of new.
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  Speaker 5: Life and glad prosperity.
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  Speaker 3: Behold with gracious heart, well pleased. I for my citizens
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  Speaker 3: do grant fulfillment of this covenant. And here their wrath
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  Speaker 3: at length appeased. These mighty deities shall stay for theirs.
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  Speaker 3: It is by right to sway the lot that rules
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  Speaker 3: our mortal day. And he who hath not inly felt
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  Speaker 3: their stern decree ere long on him, not knowing why,
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  Speaker 3: and whence the grim life crushing blow is dealt. The
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  Speaker 3: father's sin upon the child descends, and sin is silent death,
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  Speaker 3: and leads him on the downward path by stealth, beguiled
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  Speaker 3: unto the furies. Though his state on earth were high
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  Speaker 3: and loud, his boast. Victim of silent ire and hate,
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  Speaker 3: he dwells among the lost.
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  Speaker 5: To my blessing. Now give ear scorching blight, nor scented air.
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  Speaker 5: Never lasts thine honest. There drought the wasted bud, and
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  Speaker 5: plant keep to thine own place.
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  Speaker 4: A lot famine fell, and come not hither stealthily to waste,
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  Speaker 4: and whither let the land in season twice, wapping fruits
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  Speaker 4: and new team the kind and double leasure rich he knew,
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  Speaker 4: God given treasure. Here let men the powers adore for
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  Speaker 4: sudden gifts unhold before.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, hearken orders of the wall that guards mine Athens.
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  Speaker 3: What a dour is unto her ordained and given for
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  Speaker 3: mighty is the furious power and deep revered in courts
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  Speaker 3: of heaven and realms of hell, and clear to all
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  Speaker 3: they weave thy doom mortality, And some in joy and
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  Speaker 3: peace shall sing, But unto other some they bring sad
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  Speaker 3: life and tear dimmed eye, and far.
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  Speaker 5: Away many and remove unt soon brought low, And to
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  Speaker 5: teach God, when.
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  Speaker 4: Is come Grandi's heart life to know ye too, children
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  Speaker 4: of Mother Night, whose children too are we, o, Goddess
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  Speaker 4: of just award of all my sacred right, queens, who
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  Speaker 4: in time and in eternity to rule a present power
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  Speaker 4: for righteousness, honored beyond all God here and grant my cry.
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  Speaker 3: And I too, I with joy am fain hearing your
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  Speaker 3: voice this gift ordain unto my land. Hi, thanks be
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  Speaker 3: Thine persuasion, who, with eyes divine into my tongue, didst
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  Speaker 3: look thy strength to bend and to appease at length
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  Speaker 3: those who would not be comforted. Zeus king of Parley,
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  Speaker 3: doth prevail and ye and I will strive nor fail,
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  Speaker 3: that good may stand in evil's stead and lasting bliss
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  Speaker 3: for bail.
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  Speaker 4: And the walls within eo seditions did unked with blood
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  Speaker 4: and crime.
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  Speaker 5: The thirsty dust shall nevermore suck up the dark stream
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  Speaker 5: of civic broils, shed out in wrath advengeance, crying death
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  Speaker 5: for death. But man with man.
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  Speaker 4: Estates with state, shall vow the pledge of common hate
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  Speaker 4: and common friendship, that for man hath oft made blessing.
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  Speaker 8: Out of man be ours unto all the time skill
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  Speaker 8: they or not the path to find of favoring speech
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  Speaker 8: and presage kind.
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  Speaker 3: YEA, even from these who grim and stern glared anger
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  Speaker 3: upon you of old, o citizens, ye now shall earn
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  Speaker 3: a recompense. Right manifold, deck them aright, extol them high,
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  Speaker 3: be loyal to their loyalty, and ye shall make your
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: town and land sure, propped on Justice's saving hand and
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  Speaker 3: fame eternity.
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  Speaker 4: Hail, ye, all hail, and yet again all hail O Athens,
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  Speaker 4: happy being in a weal secured O ye who sit
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  Speaker 4: by Zeus's right hand, nor fail of wisdom set among you,
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  Speaker 4: and assured loved of the well loved goddess Maid the
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  Speaker 4: King of Gods doth reverence you beneath her guarding wing.
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  Speaker 3: All hail unto each honored guest, whom to the chambers
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  Speaker 3: of your rest tis mine to lead and to provide
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  Speaker 3: the hallowed torch, the guard and guide pass down the
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  Speaker 3: while these altars glow with sacred fire, to earth below,
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  Speaker 3: and your appointed shrine there, dwelling from the land, restrain
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  Speaker 3: the force of fate, the breath of bain, but waft
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  Speaker 3: on us the gift and gain of victory divine, and ye,
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  Speaker 3: the men of Crnos's seed, I bid you, now with reverence,
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  Speaker 3: lead these alien powers that thus are made Athenian. Evermore
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  Speaker 3: to you, fair be their will henceforth to do whate'er
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  Speaker 3: may bless and aid hail.
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  Speaker 4: To you, All hail yet again all loves God, and.
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  Speaker 9: Then adoring her as pallace home, and while grant my
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  Speaker 9: sacred shrine and hidden haunt, blameless and little be your doom.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Once more, I praise the promise of your vows. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: now I bid the golden torches glow pass down before
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  Speaker 3: you to the hidden depth of earth. By mine own
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: sacred servants, born, my loyal guards of statue and of shrine,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: come forth, o flower of theseus's attic land, Oh glorious
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  Speaker 3: and of children and of wives, and ye o train
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  Speaker 3: of matrons, crowned with eld decu, with festal robes of
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: scarlet dye, in honor of this day, Oh gleaming torch.
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  Speaker 3: Lead onward, that these gracious powers of earth henceforth be
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  Speaker 3: seen to bless the life of men.
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  Speaker 1: Athena leads the procession downwards into the cave of the
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  Speaker 1: furies under areopagus. As they go, the escort of women
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  Speaker 1: and children chant aloud.
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  Speaker 13: And its childless children to hold all citizens to bear
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  Speaker 13: to darkness foreigner bosom downward, fair citizens, past the powers
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  Speaker 13: of tread with a vale, into the heart of this
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  Speaker 13: love land with joy land the while beyond end.
• 34:07
  Speaker 14: Upon the Brandy is the blame behind the downard affair,
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  Speaker 14: as fair and torture sec claim all come down to
• 34:21
  Speaker 14: the bad affair. Fallow's town real.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoys the claim all exit.
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  Speaker 14: End of Section
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  Speaker 1: Six, end of the Furies, end of the Oristea