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Speaker 1: Section one of the Oristea. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: Oristea by Eschylus, translated by E. D. A. Moore'shead, Section
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Speaker 1: one Agamemnon.
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Speaker 2: Part one.
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Speaker 1: The scene is the palace of Atreus, at mycene. In
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Speaker 1: front of the palace stands statues of the gods and
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Speaker 1: altars prepared for sacrifices.
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Speaker 3: I pray the gods to quit me of my toils,
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Speaker 3: to close the watch. I keep this livelong year for
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Speaker 3: as a watchdog, lying not at rest, propped on one
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Speaker 3: arm upon the palace roof of Atreus. Race too long,
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Speaker 3: too well. I know the starry conclave of the midnight
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Speaker 3: sky too well, the splendors of the firmament, the lords
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Speaker 3: of light, whose kingly aspect shows what time they set
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Speaker 3: or climb the sky in turn the year's divisions, bringing
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Speaker 3: frost or fire. And now, as ever am I set
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Speaker 3: to mark, when shall stream up the glow of signal flame,
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Speaker 3: the bale fire bright and tell its trojan tale. Troy
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Speaker 3: Town is tame. Such issue holds in hope, she in
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Speaker 3: whose woman's breast beats heart of man. Thus upon mine
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Speaker 3: unrestful couch, I lie bathed with the dews of night,
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Speaker 3: unvisited by dreams army, For in the place of sleep
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Speaker 3: stands fear as my familiar and repels the soft repose
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Speaker 3: that would mine eyelids seal, and if at whiles for
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Speaker 3: the lost balm of sleep, I medicine my soul with
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Speaker 3: malady of trill or song anon to tears, I turn
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Speaker 3: wailin the woe that broods upon this home, not now
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Speaker 3: by honor guid'd as of old, but now at last
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Speaker 3: fair fall the welcome hour that sets me free. When
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Speaker 3: e'er the thick night gloweth beacon fire of hope deferr'd no.
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Speaker 1: More all hail, a beacon light is seen reddening the distant.
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Speaker 3: Sky, fire of the night that brings my spirit day,
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Speaker 3: shedding on Argo's light and dance and song. Greetings to fortune, Hail,
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Speaker 3: Let my loud summons ring within the ears of Agamemnon's queen,
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Speaker 3: that she Anon start from her couch, and with a
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Speaker 3: shrill voice, cry a joyous welcome to the beacon blaze
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Speaker 3: for Ilien's fall. Such fiery message gleams from yon high flame,
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Speaker 3: and I before the rest will foot the lightsome measure
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Speaker 3: of our joy. For I can say my master's dice
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Speaker 3: fell fare. Behold the triple size, the lucky flame. Now
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Speaker 3: be my lot to clasp in loyal love the hand
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Speaker 3: of him Restor'd who rules our home.
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Speaker 4: Home.
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Speaker 3: But I say no more upon my tongue treads hard
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Speaker 3: the ox o. The adage had it voice, the home
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Speaker 3: itself might soothliest tell its tale. I of set will
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Speaker 3: speak words the wise may learn. Two others not remember
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Speaker 3: nor discern.
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Speaker 1: The watchman exits. The chorus of old men of Mycenae enter,
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Speaker 1: each leaning on a staff. During their song, Clytemnestra appears
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Speaker 1: in the background, kindling the altars.
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Speaker 5: Ten long years have rolled away since the twin lords
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Speaker 5: of sept and sway as Us endowed with pride of place.
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Speaker 5: The doughty chiefs of a tres race went forth of
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Speaker 5: Yred to plead with prime face to face before the
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Speaker 5: judgment seat of war. A thousand ships from our Dave
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Speaker 5: Lamb put forth to bear the marshal damned, and with
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Speaker 5: a spirit stern and strong, went out to write the
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Speaker 5: Kingdom's wrong feel as they went the battle song wild,
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Speaker 5: as the vultures cry, when all the early soaring high
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Speaker 5: and wild bread agony around around lairy rings, they wheel
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Speaker 5: with horrage of their wings. Do not the ies brood
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Speaker 5: behold have called them to the nest of old, that
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Speaker 5: let apollow from the sky, or pan or Zeus that
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Speaker 5: hear the cry the exile cry, the wail forlorn of birds.
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Speaker 6: From whom their home is torn, of.
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Speaker 5: Those who wrought to the rapine fell. Heaven sends eventul
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Speaker 5: fiends of hell. Even so doth Zeus, that Killer's lord.
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Speaker 6: And guardian of the hearth and board.
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Speaker 5: Speeder Traya's sons, in vengeful eye against Paris, sends them
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Speaker 5: forth on.
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Speaker 6: Fire herd to buy back in war and blood whom
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Speaker 6: wanded wed. But many would, and many many by his
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Speaker 6: will the last embrace of foes shall feel, and many.
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Speaker 5: Any in dusty bound and slintered spears on shields ring loud.
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Speaker 6: Of Trojan and of Greek before that iron bridal feat.
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Speaker 6: But as he will, all.
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Speaker 5: At all, and woes by Heaven ordained thus fall, un
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Speaker 5: soothed by cheers or.
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Speaker 6: Spilth of wine poured forth.
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Speaker 5: To mate the divine there's vengeance on the flameless shine,
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Speaker 5: and we engrave on the hell feel the frame unfit
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Speaker 5: held to join the warrior array that then went forth
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Speaker 5: onto the fray.
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Speaker 6: And here's home we carry fain our feelful steps to
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Speaker 6: sustain each.
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Speaker 5: On his sup so strength that wayne and turns to
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Speaker 5: childishness again.
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Speaker 7: For while the.
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Speaker 6: Sap of youth is green and.
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Speaker 8: Right, and meets within, the young are weakly.
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Speaker 5: As the old, and even like I'll meet the hold
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Speaker 5: of vantage postal war and a flower and through and
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Speaker 5: a nice tree. The leaves our fear drend has propped
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Speaker 5: its journey drear, as falseness, as a child, as night
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Speaker 5: of fleeting, as a dream of night lost in the
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Speaker 5: yish day.
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Speaker 6: But thou, o child of eyes.
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Speaker 5: Queen tritemest, speak and say, what messenger of joy today?
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Speaker 6: What weldom used?
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Speaker 5: Thus in sacrificial wise into the city's boundaries, thou bisalted fires,
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Speaker 5: and wise each God who doth our city guard and
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Speaker 5: keeps hardest watch, and ward from heaven above, from earth below,
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Speaker 5: the mighty lords who rule the skies. The market's lesser.
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Speaker 5: There it is to each and all the altars grow
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Speaker 5: filed for the sacrifice and here and there hamir a
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Speaker 5: far extreame skyward many a beacon star, conjured and charmed
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Speaker 5: and kindled well by pure oil, soft and guid The
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Speaker 5: spell in now no more within the palace's secret store,
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Speaker 5: O Queen, we pray thee whatsoe'er known unto thee were
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Speaker 5: well revealed, that thou wilt trust it to our ear,
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Speaker 5: and bid our anxious.
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Speaker 6: Heart be healed. That weigneth now unto despair.
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Speaker 5: Now waxing to our pressage fare dawns from the altar,
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Speaker 5: hope to scare from our red hearts. The vulture care list.
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Speaker 6: For the power is mine to chant on high. The
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Speaker 6: chief senterprise the strength that omens.
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Speaker 8: Gave list on my soul breathe yet.
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Speaker 5: A harmony from realms of ageus powers and strong to
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Speaker 5: save our brother kings.
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Speaker 6: Twin lords of one command led forth the youth.
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Speaker 5: Of Hellas in their flower urged on their way with
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Speaker 5: vengeful spear and rand i warrior birds that watch the
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Speaker 5: party our goth de Troy. The eagles seemed to cry,
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Speaker 5: and the sea kings obeyed the sky King's word.
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Speaker 8: When on the right they saw across the.
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Speaker 6: Sky and one was black, one bore a white tail
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Speaker 6: bard high all the palace where they seemed. Therefore then
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Speaker 6: knit in sight.
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Speaker 5: Of all and rent, and tear far from the fields,
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Speaker 5: that she should range.
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Speaker 6: No more big with her unborn brood. Another air, and one.
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Speaker 5: Beheld the soldier prophet true, and the two chiefs unlike
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Speaker 5: his soul and will in the twy colored eagles straight
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Speaker 5: he knew, and stake the omen forth for gold, damn, ill,
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Speaker 5: and well they will be the issue fair.
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Speaker 8: Go forth, he cried, and plans town shall fall.
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Speaker 6: Yet long the time shall be, and flock and heard
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Speaker 6: the people's wealth that thrown before the wall shall force
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Speaker 6: hew down. When fate shall live.
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Speaker 9: The word before the walls wrath in heaven, Abide the
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Speaker 9: glowing battle for once more, and all.
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Speaker 5: The mighty curve of Trojan pride the steel of angels,
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Speaker 5: well as for war for the vision, jealous hate against
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Speaker 5: the royal house. The eagle pair who the unborn rule insociates.
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Speaker 5: He loaths their ankles on the covering hair. But be
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Speaker 5: the issue fair, for well she loves.
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Speaker 10: The God is kind and mild the the newborn curves
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Speaker 10: of bold to range a well sucking child of every
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Speaker 10: beast that roads by and mold.
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Speaker 7: So to the Lord of Heaven, she prayeth.
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Speaker 5: Still nay, if it must be be the Omen true,
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Speaker 5: Yet do the vision to eagle's pressage. Ill the end
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Speaker 5: be well, but crossed with evil too, Healer Apollo, be
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Speaker 5: her wrath controll'd, nor weave the long delay of thwarting
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Speaker 5: gales to war against the Damayans, and withhold from the
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Speaker 5: free ocean waves their eager sails. She craves alas to
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Speaker 5: see a second life shed forth, a cursed, unhallow'd sacrifice
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Speaker 5: TwixT wedded souls, artificer of strife and hate that knows
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Speaker 5: not fear and fell device at home their tarries alike,
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Speaker 5: a lurking snake biding its time, a wrath unreconcil'd, a
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Speaker 5: wily watcher passionate to slake in blood resentment for a
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Speaker 5: murdered child. Such was the mighty warning field of yore,
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Speaker 5: amid good tidings, such the word of fear.
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Speaker 8: What time the fateful eagles hover'd o'er the kings and
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Speaker 8: calcas read the Omen clear.
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Speaker 5: In strains like his once more sing woe and well
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Speaker 5: a day, But be the issue fair zeus, if to
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Speaker 5: the unknown that name of many names seem good.
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Speaker 6: Zeus upon thee I called.
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Speaker 5: Through the mines every road I passed, But vain are
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Speaker 5: all save that which names the Zeus the highest one worried,
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Speaker 5: but mine to cast away the load, the weary load
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Speaker 5: that weighs my spirit down.
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Speaker 8: He that was lord of old, in full blown.
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Speaker 5: Pride of place and valorablel have fallen and is gone,
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Speaker 5: even as an old tale told. And he that next
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Speaker 5: held sway by stronger grasp or thrown, hath passed away.
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Speaker 5: And whoso now shall bid the triumph chant arise to Zeus,
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Speaker 5: and Zeus alone, he shall be found. The truly wise
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Speaker 5: tis Zeus alone, who shows the perfect way of knowledge.
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Speaker 6: He hath ruled.
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Speaker 5: Men shall learn wisdom by affliction, school in visions of
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Speaker 5: the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of
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Speaker 5: pain before the spirit's sight. Through tears and dole comes wisdom.
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Speaker 5: All the unwilling soul, a boonigh watt of all divinity
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Speaker 5: that holds its sacred throne in strength above the sky.
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Speaker 5: And then the elder Chief, at whose command the fleet
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Speaker 5: of greeceless man cast on the seer no word of hate,
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Speaker 5: but veered before the sudden breath.
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Speaker 8: Of fate our weary, while for e're they.
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Speaker 5: Put forth sail, did every storm, each manish vessel fail,
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Speaker 5: While all the Keean host and all its anchor lay
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Speaker 5: looking across the Chalcis and the coast, where retat waters welter,
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Speaker 5: rock and sway and rife with ill delay from northern
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Speaker 5: Stramon blew the thwarting blast, mother of famine fell that
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Speaker 5: holds men wandering still far from the haven where they
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Speaker 5: fain would be, and pitiless did waste the ship and
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Speaker 5: cable rotting on the sea, and doubling with delay each
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Speaker 5: weary hour wither'd with hope deferr'd the cairn's warlike flower.
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Speaker 5: But when for bitter storm, a deadlier relief and heavier
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Speaker 5: with ill to either chief, pleading the eye of Artemis,
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Speaker 5: the seer avow'd the two a Tredai smote their scepters
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Speaker 5: on the plain, and striving hard, could not.
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Speaker 6: Their tears restrain.
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Speaker 5: And then n Eelder Monarch spake aloud, ill, lot were
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Speaker 5: mine to disobey and ill, to smite my child, my
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Speaker 5: household's love and pride, to stain with virgin hood of
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Speaker 5: father's hands, and slay my daughter by the altar's.
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Speaker 6: Side TwixT woe and woe, I dwell.
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Speaker 5: I dare not like a recreant fly and leave the
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Speaker 5: league of ships and fail each true through ally, for
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Speaker 5: rightfully they crave with eager, firey mind, the virgin's blood
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Speaker 5: shed forth to lull the adverse wind God's hend the
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Speaker 5: deed be well. Thus on his neck he took Fate's hard,
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Speaker 5: compelling yoke. Then in the counter gale of will abhorr'd
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Speaker 5: a cursed to recklessness, his shifting spirit veer'd alas that
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Speaker 5: frenzy first of ills and worst with evil craft men's
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Speaker 5: soul to sin hath ever stirr'd, and so he steel'd
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Speaker 5: his heart now well a day aiding a war for
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Speaker 5: one false woman's sake, his child to slay, and with
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Speaker 5: her spilt blood, make an offering to speed the ships
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Speaker 5: upon their way, lasting for war.
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Speaker 6: The bloody arbiters closed heart.
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Speaker 7: And ears, and would not hear nor heed the.
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Speaker 8: Girl's voice plead pity me father, nor her prayers, nor
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Speaker 8: tender virgin years.
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Speaker 5: So, when the chance of sacrifice was done her father bad,
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Speaker 5: the youthful priestly train raised her like some poor kid
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Speaker 5: above the altar stone, from where amid her robes she
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Speaker 5: lay sunk all in swoon away bad them, as with
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Speaker 5: the bit that mutely tames the steed. Her fair lips
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Speaker 5: speech refrain, lest she should speak a curse on our trains,
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Speaker 5: home and seed, so trailing on the earth, her robe
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Speaker 5: of saffron dye with one last piteous dart from her
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Speaker 5: beseeching eye, those she should smite. She's mote, fair, silent
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Speaker 5: as a picture form. But fain to plead these all forgot,
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Speaker 5: how off those halls of old, wherein my sire I
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Speaker 5: feasted hold rang to the virginal soft strain, when I
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Speaker 5: a stainless.
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Speaker 7: Child sang from pure lips, And and if sign of.
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Speaker 5: My sire and all his honored life, and how on
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Speaker 5: him should fall Heaven's highest gifts and gain? And then
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Speaker 5: but I beheld not, nor can tell what further fate befell.
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Speaker 7: But this is sure that Calcus's boding strain.
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Speaker 6: Can never be void or vain.
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Speaker 5: The ways from justice hand to suff resern, the future
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Speaker 5: to descern. And yet farewell, o secret of tomorrow. Fore
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Speaker 5: knowledge is full, sorrow clear, with the clear beams of
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Speaker 5: the morrow's sun, the future presseth on. Now let the
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Speaker 5: houses tell how dark are a fine yet an issue fair.
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Speaker 7: So praise the loyal solitary.
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Speaker 6: Band that guards the Apian land.
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Speaker 1: They turned to Clytemnestra, who leaves the altars and comes forward.
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Speaker 6: Oh Queen, I.
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Speaker 7: Come in reference, for while the rulers king void, the loyal.
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Speaker 8: Heart before his causle winds.
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Speaker 5: Now, be it sure and certain news of good, all
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Speaker 5: the fair, flattering hope.
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Speaker 7: That spread the light from shine to shine.
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Speaker 8: I fain to hear, yet.
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Speaker 11: Assays the adage from the womb of night spring forth
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Speaker 11: with promised fair the young child light. I fair even
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Speaker 11: than all hope. My news, by Grecian hands is priam
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Speaker 11: city taken.
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Speaker 5: What saves thou doubtful heart makes treacherous Here.
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Speaker 11: Then again and plainly Troy is ours thrills.
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Speaker 6: Through my heart such joy as wakens tears.
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Speaker 11: Aye through those tears. Thine eye looks loyalty.
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Speaker 6: But hast thou proof to make assured and sure?
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Speaker 11: Go to I have unless the god has lied.
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Speaker 6: Hath some night vision onely to believe.
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Speaker 11: Out on all presage of a slumbrous soul.
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Speaker 6: But wert thou cheered by rumor's wingless word?
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Speaker 11: Peace? Thou dost chied me as a credulous girl.
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Speaker 6: Say, then, how long ago the city fell?
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Speaker 11: Even in this night that now brings forth the dawn.
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Speaker 6: Yet who so swift could speed the message here?
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Speaker 11: From Ida's top Hephaestus, lord of Fire, sent forth his sign,
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Speaker 11: and on an avaron beacon to beacon, sped the courier
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Speaker 11: flame from Ida to the crag that Hermes loves of Lemnos,
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Speaker 11: thence unto the steep sublime of Athos, throne of Zeus.
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Speaker 11: The broad blaze flared, thence raised aloft to shoot across
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Speaker 11: the sea. The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, sped
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Speaker 11: from the pyre of pine and urged its way in
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Speaker 11: golden glory, like some strange new sun, onward and reached
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Speaker 11: Michistus's watching heights. There with no dull delay nor heedless sleep,
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Speaker 11: the watcher sped the tidings on in turn, until the
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Speaker 11: guard upon Messapius's peak saw the far flame gleam on
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Speaker 11: Eurypus's tide, and from the high piled heap of withered firs,
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Speaker 11: lit the you sign and bade the message on. Then
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Speaker 11: the strong light, far flown and yet undimmed, shot through
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Speaker 11: the sky above Asopis's plain bright as the moon, and
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Speaker 11: on Caythin's crag aroused another watch of flying fire, and
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Speaker 11: there the sentinels no whit disowned, but sent redoubled on
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Speaker 11: the hest of flame. Swift shot the light above Gorgopas's
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Speaker 11: Bay to Igiplantus's mount, and bade the peak fail not
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Speaker 11: the onward ordinance of fire, And like a long beard,
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Speaker 11: streaming in the wind, full fed with fuel, roared and
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Speaker 11: rose the blaze, and onward flaring gleamed above the cape
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Speaker 11: beneath which shimmers the Saronic Bay, and thence leapt the
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Speaker 11: light unto a Rakney's peak, the mountain watch that looks
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Speaker 11: upon our town. Thence to the atrides roof in lineage fair,
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Speaker 11: a bright posterity of Ida's fire, so sped from stage
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Speaker 11: to stage, fulfilled in turn, flame after flame along the
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Speaker 11: course ordained, and lo the last to speed upon its way,
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Speaker 11: sights the end first, and glows unto the goal. And
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Speaker 11: Troy is Tayan. And by this sign my Lord tells
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Speaker 11: me the tale, and ye have learned my word to heaven,
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Speaker 11: no queen.
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Speaker 5: While I raise new song, But wouldst thou speak once more?
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Speaker 5: I fain would hear from first to last the marvel
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Speaker 5: of the tale.
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Speaker 11: Think you this very morn the Greeks and Troy, and
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Speaker 11: loud therein the voice of utter wail within one cup,
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Speaker 11: poor vinegar and oil, and look unblent, unreconciled they wore
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Speaker 11: so in the twofold issue of the Strife, mingle the
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Speaker 11: victor's shout, the captive's moan for all the conquered whom
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Speaker 11: the sword has spared, cling weeping, some unto a brother slain,
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Speaker 11: some childlike to a nursing father's form, and wail the
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Speaker 11: loved and lost, the while their neck bows down already
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Speaker 11: neath the captive's chain. And lo the victors. Now the
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Speaker 11: fight is done, goaded by restless hunger, far and wide range,
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Speaker 11: all disordered through the town to snatch such victual and
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Speaker 11: such rest as chance may give. Within the captive halls
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Speaker 11: that once were Troy, joyful to rid them of the
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Speaker 11: frost and dew, wherein they couched upon the plain of old,
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Speaker 11: joyful to sleep the gracious Knight, all through unsummoned of
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Speaker 11: the watching sentinel. Yet let them reverence well the city's gods,
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Speaker 11: the lords of Troy, though fallen, and her shrines. So
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Speaker 11: shall the spoilers not, in turn be spoiled. YEA, let
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Speaker 11: no craving for the forbidden gain. Bid conquerors yield before
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Speaker 11: the darts of greed. For we need yet before the
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Speaker 11: race be won homewards unharmed, to round the course once more.
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Speaker 11: For should the host wax wanton, ere it come, then,
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Speaker 11: though the sudden blow of fate be spared, yet in
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Speaker 11: the sight of God's shall rise once more the great
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Speaker 11: wrong of the slain to claim revenge. Now, hearing from
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Speaker 11: this woman's mouth of mine the tale and eke its warning,
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Speaker 11: pray with me luck sway the scale with no uncertain poise,
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Speaker 11: for my fair hopes are changed to fairer joys.
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Speaker 5: A gracious word thy woman's lips have told worthy and
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Speaker 5: wise man's utterance. O, my queen, thou, with clear trust
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Speaker 5: in thy convincing tale, I set me to salute the gods.
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Speaker 12: With song, who bring us bliss to counterpoise our pain.
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Speaker 1: Clytemnestra exits zeus, Lord of Heaven, and welcome knight of victory,
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Speaker 1: that hast our might with all the glories.
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Speaker 12: Ground all towns of Ilion free. Now war has flung
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Speaker 12: the mighty measure of war and closely built them round
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Speaker 12: till Michael Warrior may escape more stripling lightly.
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Speaker 6: Overleap the traunels.
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Speaker 2: So they close and close, till with the grip of Dumah,
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Speaker 2: foes in slavery's coil are bound. Zeus, Lord of hospitality,
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Speaker 2: in grateful awe, I bend to thee tis thou hast
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Speaker 2: struck the blow at Alexander long ago. We mark the
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Speaker 2: men thy vengeful bow, But long and wearily withhold the
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Speaker 2: eager shaft, which uncontrolled and loose too soon or launch
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Speaker 2: too high, have wandered bloodless through the sky. Use the
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Speaker 2: High God, whatever be dim in doubt this canna thought,
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Speaker 2: track out the blur that fells. The siller is of God,
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Speaker 2: and as he wills the rod of vengeance might of soul.
24:17
Speaker 2: One said, of all the gods, bliss not at all
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Speaker 2: the recording with him whose feet of breast, the great
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Speaker 2: of oldness, an impious word for winter, the sun breathing
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Speaker 2: forth rebellious fire. What time has come to overflowed the
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Speaker 2: measure of bliss, health and treasure.
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Speaker 5: His children's children read.
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Speaker 2: The record in plain at last, in tears and pain
24:44
Speaker 2: on me let wield that brings no world be said
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Speaker 2: therewith all contempt.
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Speaker 5: Who spurns the shrine of right, nor wealth, nor power
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Speaker 5: shall be to him attire to guard him from the
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Speaker 5: gulf there lieses not where all things are forgot. Lust
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Speaker 5: drives him on, lust desperate and wild, Fate's sin contriving child,
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Speaker 5: and cure is none beyond concealment. Clear kindles Sin's baleful
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Speaker 5: glare as an ill coin beneath the wearing touch betrays
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Speaker 5: by stain and smutch its metal false such.
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Speaker 8: As the sinful white before.
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Speaker 5: On Pinion's light, fair pleasure fleets and lures him charm
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Speaker 5: like arm, while home and kin make moan beneath the
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Speaker 5: grinding burden of his crime, till in the end of time,
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Speaker 5: cast down of.
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Speaker 8: Heaven, he pours forth fruitless.
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Speaker 6: Prayer to powers that will not hear.
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Speaker 5: And such did Paris come unto a triges home, and
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Speaker 5: thence with sin and shame his welcome to repay, ravish
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Speaker 5: the wife away, and she unto her country and her kin,
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Speaker 5: leaving the clash of shields and spears and arming ships,
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Speaker 5: and bearing unto Troy destruction for Adur and overbold in
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Speaker 5: Sin went freakly through the gates at midnight hour oft
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Speaker 5: from the prophet's lips mown doubt.
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Speaker 6: The warning and the wail.
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Speaker 13: Oh, woe woe for the home a home, and for
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Speaker 13: the chieftain's woe, woe for the bride bed warm yet
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Speaker 13: from the lovely.
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Speaker 6: Limbs the impress of the form of her, who lov'd
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Speaker 6: her nord awhile ago, And woe for him.
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Speaker 5: Who stands sham'd, silent, unreproachful, stretching hands that find her
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Speaker 5: not and sees, yet will not see that she is
26:49
Speaker 5: far away, and his sad fancy yearning o'er the sea
26:54
Speaker 5: shall summon and recall her wraith once more to queene
26:59
Speaker 5: It in his all and sad with many memories, the fair,
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Speaker 5: cold beauty of each sculptured face, and all to hatefulnesses
27:09
Speaker 5: turned their grace, seen blankly.
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Speaker 6: By forlorn and hungering eyes.
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Speaker 5: And when the night is deep, come visions, sweet and
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Speaker 5: sad and daring pain of helpings, vain, void, void, and
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Speaker 5: vain for scarce the sleeping sight hath seen its old delight,
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Speaker 5: when through the grasp of love.
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Speaker 8: That bid its stay, it vanishes.
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Speaker 6: Away on silent wings that roam down the ways of sleep.
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Speaker 5: Such are the sights the sorrows fell about our hearth
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Speaker 5: and worth, whereof I may not tell with all white.
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Speaker 8: Taror each home that sent its master far.
27:53
Speaker 5: Away from hellas shore feels the keen thrill of heart, the.
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Speaker 6: Pang of loss to day who us to say?
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Speaker 5: The touch of bitter death is manifold, familiar was each
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Speaker 5: face and dear as life.
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Speaker 6: That went unto the war.
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Speaker 5: But thither whence a warrior went old, doth nor return
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Speaker 5: only a spear.
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Speaker 6: And soul and ashes in an urn. For ere is.
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Speaker 14: Lord of strife, And doth the swaying scales of battle
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Speaker 14: hold War's money changer, giving dust for gold, sends back
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Speaker 14: the hearts that held them dear scamash of.
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Speaker 6: Warriors, wet with many.
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Speaker 5: A tear light to the hand, but heavy to the soul.
28:41
Speaker 5: Yea fills the lighter and full with what survived.
28:45
Speaker 6: The flame, Death's dusty.
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Speaker 15: Measure, the hero's fame alas one cries, and yet alas
28:53
Speaker 15: again our chief is gone, the hero of the spear
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Speaker 15: and hath not left his peer. Ah woe and other moans.
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Speaker 15: My spouse is slain, the death of honor, roll'd in
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Speaker 15: dust and blood, slain for a woman's sin, a.
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Speaker 6: False wife's shame.
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Speaker 8: Such muttered words of bitter mood rise.
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Speaker 16: Against those who went forth the reclaim yeae Us Wrath.
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Speaker 6: Creeps on against that in his name.
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Speaker 16: The mothers far beneath the Indian walls sleep their last sleep.
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Speaker 6: The goodly chiefs and tall couch'd in the Foemen's land.
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Speaker 5: Of whereon they gave their breath, and lords of Troy,
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Speaker 5: each in.
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Speaker 6: His trojan grave.
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Speaker 17: Therefore, for each and all, the city's breast is heavy
29:45
Speaker 17: with a wrath's areast, as deep and deadly as a curse,
29:50
Speaker 17: more loud flung by the common.
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Speaker 6: Crowd, and brooding deeply, doth.
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Speaker 8: My soul await hidings of coming.
29:58
Speaker 9: Fate, buried as yet in darkness womb will not forgetful
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Speaker 9: as the High God's do against the sons of carnage.
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Speaker 16: All too long seems the unjust to prosper and be wrong,
30:12
Speaker 16: till the dark furies come and smite them with stern reversal,
30:17
Speaker 16: all his home down into dim obstruction.
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Speaker 6: He is gone, and help and hope among the lost
30:25
Speaker 6: is none for him who wanteth.
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Speaker 7: An exceeding flame intends.
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Speaker 16: Awoke Ondine, the eventful bolt upon his eyes.
30:36
Speaker 6: The flame spread from the.
30:38
Speaker 5: Hand behind this misremind and grudged of God to feel
30:43
Speaker 5: to tread no city to.
30:45
Speaker 16: The dust, nor see my own my frust down to
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Speaker 16: slaves his sake beneath.
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Speaker 7: The mother's heel behold throughout the city.
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Speaker 6: Why have the swift feet of rumor hide roused by
30:58
Speaker 6: the joyful flame?
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Speaker 7: But is then use they sat sooth or happily? Will
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Speaker 7: they give the truth?
31:05
Speaker 9: Some cheat which him the frame the child, where he
31:09
Speaker 9: and all unwise who lets his heart.
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Speaker 16: With joy be stirred to see the beacon fires arise,
31:17
Speaker 16: then beneath some.
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Speaker 7: Tharking words singing along.
31:21
Speaker 6: With hope deferred the age of woman's in my.
31:24
Speaker 5: Still will muse so true divinel light rumors leap within
31:30
Speaker 5: the bound the pence's female credence, round, but lightly born,
31:35
Speaker 5: as likely dies the tale that springs of her surmise.
31:40
Speaker 5: Soon shall we know whereof the male fires tell the
31:44
Speaker 5: beacons kindled with transmitted flame, whether as well I deem
31:49
Speaker 5: their tale is true, or whether like some dream delusive game,
31:54
Speaker 5: the welcome blaze but to befool our soul.
31:58
Speaker 6: For lo I see a.
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Speaker 8: Herald, For on the shore draw hither shadowed with the.
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Speaker 5: Olive wreath and thirsty dust. Twin brother of the clay
32:07
Speaker 5: speaks plain of travel far and truthful news, no dun surmise,
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Speaker 5: nor tongue of flame in smoke fitfully kindled from the
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Speaker 5: mountain tire.
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Speaker 6: The plainlier shall his voice.
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Speaker 9: Say all is well, all but away foreboding's adverse. Now
32:27
Speaker 9: and on fair promise, fair fulfillment, come, and whoso for
32:32
Speaker 9: the state prays otherwise himself reap harvest.
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Speaker 6: Of his ill desire.
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Speaker 18: A herald enters, Oh land of Argos, fatherland of mine
32:43
Speaker 18: to thee. At last, beneath the tenth year sun, my
32:45
Speaker 18: feet returned the bark of my empress, though one by
32:49
Speaker 18: one Hope's anchors broke away, held by the last, and
32:52
Speaker 18: now ride safely here. Long long I soul despaired to
32:57
Speaker 18: win in death. It's long for rest within our argive land.
33:02
Speaker 18: And now all ail o Earth, and hail to thee
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Speaker 18: new risen sun, and hail our country's god, high ruling Zeus,
33:09
Speaker 18: and Thou the Pythian lord whose arrows smote us once
33:13
Speaker 18: smite thou no more was not thy wrath reached full
33:17
Speaker 18: upon our heads, O King Apollo, by Scamander's side, turn
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Speaker 18: thou be turned, be savior healer now and Hail all
33:26
Speaker 18: gods who ruled the street and mart and Hermes. Hail
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Speaker 18: my patron and my pride, Herald of Heaven and Lord
33:32
Speaker 18: of Herald's hero and heroes, Ye who sped us on
33:35
Speaker 18: our way to one and all I cry receive again
33:38
Speaker 18: with grace such argives as the spear has spared Ah,
33:43
Speaker 18: home of royalty, beloved halls and solemn shrines, and gods
33:48
Speaker 18: at front the moor, benign as erst with sun flushed aspect,
33:52
Speaker 18: greet the king returning after many days, For as from
33:57
Speaker 18: night flesh out the beams of day, so out of
33:59
Speaker 18: darkness dawns alight. A king on you on Argos, Agamemnon
34:05
Speaker 18: comes then hail and greetam well. Such mead befits him
34:09
Speaker 18: whose right hand hewed down the towers of Troy with
34:12
Speaker 18: the great acts of Zeus, who righteth wrong and smote
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Speaker 18: the plains, smote down to nothingness, each alter, every shrine,
34:20
Speaker 18: and far and wide, dies from the whole land's face
34:23
Speaker 18: its offspring. Fair, such mighty yoke of fate he set
34:27
Speaker 18: on Troy, our lord and monarch Atrius's elder son, and
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Speaker 18: comes at last with blissful honor, homehist of all who
34:35
Speaker 18: walk on earth to day. Not Paris nor the city's
34:38
Speaker 18: self that paid Sin's price with him, can boast whate'er
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Speaker 18: befall the gurden we have won out weighs at all.
34:45
Speaker 18: But at Fate's judgment seat the robber stands condemned of Rappian,
34:48
Speaker 18: and his prey is torn forth from his hands, and
34:52
Speaker 18: by his deed is reaped a bloody harvest of his
34:54
Speaker 18: home and land, gone down to death. And for his
34:57
Speaker 18: guilt and lust, his father's race pays dump in the dust.
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Speaker 7: Hail, Herald of the Greeks, you come from.
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Speaker 18: War, Oh hail, not death itself can frighten me?
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Speaker 5: Now?
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Speaker 7: Was thy heart wrong with longing for thy land?
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Speaker 18: So that this joy doth brim mine eyes with tears?
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Speaker 8: All you king?
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Speaker 6: Then this sweet distress.
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Speaker 18: How sayest thou make me master of thy word?
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Speaker 8: You long for us, who pining for you again.
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Speaker 18: Crave the land, us who craved it love for love?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so my brooding heart well with pain.
35:33
Speaker 18: Whence thy despair that mars the army's joy. So killed
35:37
Speaker 18: of wrong is silence, said all thy kings, afarm couldst
35:42
Speaker 18: thou fear other men?
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Speaker 6: Death have been sweet?
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Speaker 18: Tis true? Fate smiles at last. Throughout our toil these
35:52
Speaker 18: many years, some chances issued fair, and some, my watch,
35:56
Speaker 18: were checkered with a curse. But who on earth hath
35:59
Speaker 18: one the bliss of heaven? For times as old, tenor
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Speaker 18: and unbroken wheel, I could a tail unfold of toiling, oars,
36:06
Speaker 18: ill rest, scant landings on a shore, rocks strewn, all pains,
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Speaker 18: all sorrows for our daily doom. And worse and hateful
36:14
Speaker 18: are our woes on land. For where we couched close
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Speaker 18: by the Foeman's wall, the river plain was ever dank,
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Speaker 18: with dews dropped from the sky, excluded from the earth,
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Speaker 18: a curse that clung into our sodden garb and hair
36:28
Speaker 18: as horrent as a wild beasts fell. Why tell the
36:32
Speaker 18: woes of winter? When the birds lay stark and stiff,
36:35
Speaker 18: so stern was i'd as snow or summer's scorch? What
36:40
Speaker 18: time the sterless wave sank to its sleep beneath the
36:43
Speaker 18: noonday's sun. Why morn old woes? Their pain is passed
36:48
Speaker 18: away and passed away from those who fell, all care
36:51
Speaker 18: for evermore to rise and live again? Why s the
36:55
Speaker 18: count of death and render thanks for life by moaning
36:58
Speaker 18: over fate? Malign farewell along, farewell to all our woes.
37:03
Speaker 18: To us, the remnant of the Host of Greece comes
37:06
Speaker 18: well beyond all counterpoise of woe. Thus boast we rightfully
37:11
Speaker 18: to Yonder son, like him, far fleeted over sea and land.
37:15
Speaker 18: The argive Host prevailed to conquer Troy, and in the
37:18
Speaker 18: temples of the gods of Greece hung up these spoils,
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Speaker 18: a shining sign to time. Let those who learn this
37:24
Speaker 18: legend bless right the city and its chieftains, and repay
37:27
Speaker 18: the meat of gratitude to Zeus, who willed and wroth
37:30
Speaker 18: the deed. So stands the tale fulfilled my.
37:34
Speaker 19: Words, or bear my doubt the muse of good the
37:38
Speaker 19: ear of age. However youth fee now, but those within
37:44
Speaker 19: yourself would fain hear all.
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Speaker 1: Glad thou there is am Clytemnestra re enters.
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Speaker 11: Last night, when first the fiery courier came and signed
37:54
Speaker 11: that Troy is taken and raised to earth, so wild
37:57
Speaker 11: a cry of joy my lips gave out that I
37:59
Speaker 11: was hidden. Hath the beacon watch made sure unto thy
38:02
Speaker 11: soul the sack of Troy. A very woman, Thou whose
38:05
Speaker 11: heart leaps light at wandering rumors, And with words like
38:09
Speaker 11: these they showed me how I strayed, misled of hope.
38:12
Speaker 11: Yet on each shrine I set the sacrifice, And in
38:16
Speaker 11: the strain they held for feminine went heralds through the
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Speaker 11: city to and fro, with voice of loud proclaim announcing joy.
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Speaker 11: And in each fain they lit and quenched with wine,
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Speaker 11: the spicy perfumes fading in the flame. All is fulfilled.
38:30
Speaker 11: I spare your longer tail. The king himself, Anon shall
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Speaker 11: tell me all remains to think what honor best may
38:37
Speaker 11: greet my lord, the majesty of Argos home. What day
38:40
Speaker 11: beams fairer on a woman's eyes than this, whereon she
38:43
Speaker 11: flings the portal wide to hail her lord, heaven shielded
38:46
Speaker 11: home from war. This to my husband, that he tarry
38:50
Speaker 11: not but turn the city's longing into joy. Yea, let
38:54
Speaker 11: him come, and coming, may he find a wife no
38:56
Speaker 11: other than he left her, true and faithful as a
38:59
Speaker 11: watch dog to his home, his foeman's foe in all
39:02
Speaker 11: her duties leal trusty to keep for ten long years
39:05
Speaker 11: unmarred the store whereon he set his master seal be
39:09
Speaker 11: steal deep dyed before ye look to see ill joy,
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Speaker 11: ill fame from other white in me.
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Speaker 18: Tis fairly said. Thus speaks a noble day, nor speaks
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Speaker 18: of miss when truth informs.
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Speaker 1: The boast Clytemnestra exits, So.
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Speaker 5: She spoken beled to love by clear intepreters.
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Speaker 6: A speeches word.
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Speaker 8: To tell me if a long the.
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Speaker 7: Second well loved lord comes last.
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Speaker 18: Safe with you, alas brief boon on too, my friends,
39:42
Speaker 18: that were to flatter them for truth with falsehood's fair.
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Speaker 7: Speak, Joy includes the joy move that world.
39:50
Speaker 8: Little plainly clue that joy divorced.
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Speaker 18: The hero and his bark were wrapped away far from
39:56
Speaker 18: the Grecian fleet. Tis truth, I say.
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Speaker 8: As.
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Speaker 7: All from the fleet.
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Speaker 18: Full on the mark thy shaft of speech doth light,
40:09
Speaker 18: and one short word hath told long woes.
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Speaker 8: Aright, Let's say what now of him?
40:14
Speaker 7: Each comrade, say what their forebodings of his.
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Speaker 8: Life or death?
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Speaker 18: Ask me no more. The truth is known to none
40:21
Speaker 18: save the earth, fostering all surveying sun.
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Speaker 5: Say by what doom the fleet of Greece was driven?
40:27
Speaker 5: How rose, how sank the storm the.
40:30
Speaker 6: Wrath of heaven?
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Speaker 18: Nay ill it were tomorrow with sorrow's tale the day
40:34
Speaker 18: of blissful news. The gods demand thanksgiving sundered from solicitude.
40:39
Speaker 18: If one as herald came with rueful face to say,
40:43
Speaker 18: the curse has fallen, and the host gone down to death,
40:46
Speaker 18: and one wide wound has reached the city's heart, And
40:49
Speaker 18: out of many homes many are cast in consecrate to
40:52
Speaker 18: death beneath the double scorge that every loves, the bloody
40:56
Speaker 18: pair the fire and the sword of doom. If such
40:59
Speaker 18: sort of burden, wait upon my tongue twere fit to
41:01
Speaker 18: speak such words as gladden fiends. But coming as he comes,
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Speaker 18: who bringeth news of safe return from toil and issues
41:09
Speaker 18: fair to men rejoicing in a wheel, restore it dar
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Speaker 18: a to dash good words with ill, and say how
41:15
Speaker 18: the God's anger smote the Greeks and storm for fire
41:19
Speaker 18: and sea that erst held bitter feud, now swore conspiracy
41:23
Speaker 18: and pledge their faith, wasting the argives worn with toil
41:27
Speaker 18: and war. Night, in great horror of the rising wave
41:30
Speaker 18: came o'er us, and the blasts that blow from thrace
41:34
Speaker 18: clash ship with ship, and some with plunging prow throw
41:38
Speaker 18: scudding drifts of spray, and raving storm vanished as strays
41:43
Speaker 18: by some ill shepherd driven, And when at length the
41:47
Speaker 18: sun rose bright, we saw the Aegean sea field flecked
41:50
Speaker 18: with flowers of death, corpses of Grecian men, and shattered
41:54
Speaker 18: holes for us. Indeed, some god, as I well deem,
41:58
Speaker 18: no human power, laid hand upon our helm, snatched us,
42:02
Speaker 18: or prayed us from the powers of air, and brought
42:05
Speaker 18: our bark through all unharmed in hull, and saving fortune,
42:08
Speaker 18: sat and steered as fair, so that no surge should
42:11
Speaker 18: gulf us deep in brine, nor grind our keel upon
42:14
Speaker 18: a rocky shore. So scaped we death that lurks beneath
42:18
Speaker 18: the sea. But under day's white light, mistrustful of all
42:22
Speaker 18: a fortune smile, we sat and brooded deep shepherd's forlorn
42:26
Speaker 18: of thoughts that wondered wild or this new foe, for
42:30
Speaker 18: smitten was our host, and lost his ashes scattered from
42:33
Speaker 18: the pyre of whom, if any draw his life breath,
42:36
Speaker 18: yet be well assured. He deems of us as dead,
42:40
Speaker 18: and we of him. No other fate forebode, but Heaven
42:43
Speaker 18: save all. If Menelaus live, he will not tarry, but
42:46
Speaker 18: will surely come. Therefore, if anywhere the high Sun's ray
42:49
Speaker 18: to cries him upon earth preserved by Zeus, who wills
42:52
Speaker 18: not yet to wipe his race away. Hope still there
42:56
Speaker 18: is that homeward he may win enough Thou hast the
42:59
Speaker 18: true unto the end.
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Speaker 5: Save from whose lips the presage fell, who read.
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Speaker 8: The future all too well, and named.
43:07
Speaker 5: Her in her natalah Heln the bride with war fordhar
43:13
Speaker 5: twas one of the invisible, guiding his tongue with prescient
43:17
Speaker 5: power on fleet and host and citadel. War sprung from her,
43:22
Speaker 5: and death did lah. When from the bride bed's fine
43:26
Speaker 5: spun veil she to the zephyr, spread her sail strong,
43:32
Speaker 5: blew the breeze.
43:33
Speaker 8: The surge clos'd o'er the cloven track of keel and Owe.
43:37
Speaker 7: But while she fled there drove along fast in her
43:41
Speaker 7: wake a mighty thrung, a thirst for blood, a thirst
43:45
Speaker 7: for war.
43:46
Speaker 6: Forward in fell.
43:47
Speaker 8: Pursuit they sprung, then leapt on Simoi's.
43:50
Speaker 5: Bank, ashore the leafy coppices, among no rangers, they of
43:55
Speaker 5: wood and field, but huntsmen of the sword and shield.
44:00
Speaker 5: Heaven's jealousy that works it will sped thus on Troy,
44:04
Speaker 5: its destined ill well nam'd at once the bride.
44:08
Speaker 8: And bain and loud rang out.
44:11
Speaker 5: The bridle's strain, that they to whom that song befell
44:16
Speaker 5: did turn an aunt of tears again, Zeus tarries, but
44:20
Speaker 5: avenges still the husband's wrong, the household stain.
44:25
Speaker 8: He the hearth's lord brooks not to.
44:28
Speaker 5: See its outrag'd hospitality. Even now and in far o'th tone,
44:35
Speaker 5: Troy chants her dirge of mighty moan woe upon Paris,
44:40
Speaker 5: woe and hate.
44:41
Speaker 8: Who would his country's doom for mate?
44:44
Speaker 5: This is the burden of the grown, wherewith she wails
44:48
Speaker 5: disconsolate the blood so many of her own hath pour'd
44:53
Speaker 5: in vain to fend her fate.
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Speaker 8: Troy, thou hast fed and.
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Speaker 6: Free to roam.
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Speaker 5: A lion cub within thy home, A suckling creature new
45:04
Speaker 5: retained from mother's teeth, still fully fame of nursing care
45:09
Speaker 5: and oft caress within the arms upon the breast, even
45:14
Speaker 5: as an infant has it lain or fawns and nicks
45:18
Speaker 5: by hunger.
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Speaker 8: Breast the hand that will assuage its pain in.
45:23
Speaker 5: Life's young dawn, A well loved guest, a fondling for
45:27
Speaker 5: the children's play, a joy unto the old and gray,
45:33
Speaker 5: but waxing time and growth betrays the bloodthirst of.
45:37
Speaker 6: The lion race.
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Speaker 5: And for the house's fostering care and bidden all it
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Speaker 5: revels there and bloody recompensary pays great flesh of time.
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Speaker 5: Its talons tare a mighty beast that slays and slays,
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Speaker 5: and mars with blood. The household fair, a god said,
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Speaker 5: pest invincible, a minion of fate and hell. Even so
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Speaker 5: to Indian city came by stealth. A spirit has a
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Speaker 5: windless seas and skies, a gentle fountainfum of joy and wealth,
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Speaker 5: with love's soft arrows speeding from its eyes.
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Speaker 6: Loves rose, whose.
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Speaker 8: Thorn doth pierced the soul in subtle.
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Speaker 5: Wise Ah Well, a day the bitter bridal bed when
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Speaker 5: the fair mischief lay by Paris's side, What curse on
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Speaker 5: palace and on people sped with her.
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Speaker 8: The fury sent on Priam's pride by angered Zeus. What
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Speaker 8: tears of many a.
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Speaker 5: Widowed bride long long ago to mortals, this was told,
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Speaker 5: how sweet security and blissful state have curses for their children.
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Speaker 5: So men hold and for the man of all too
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Speaker 5: prosperous fate spring from a bitter seed, some woe insatiate.
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Speaker 8: Alone alone I deem far otherwise not bliss nor wealth.
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Speaker 8: It is but impious deed from which.
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Speaker 6: That after growth of ill doth rise woe.
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Speaker 5: Springs from wrong. The plant is like the seed, while
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Speaker 5: right in Honor's house doth its own likeness breed some
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Speaker 5: past impiety, some gray old crime breeds the young curse
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Speaker 5: that wantons in our ill early or late, whenhaps the
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Speaker 5: appointed time, and out of light brings power of darkness,
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Speaker 5: still a master fiend, a foe, unseen, invincible, a pride,
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Speaker 5: a curse that broods upon the race and home in
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Speaker 5: which dark athay holds her sway, sins, child and woes,
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Speaker 5: that wears its parent's face, while right in smoky cribs
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Speaker 5: shines clear as day and decks with weal his life,
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Speaker 5: who walks the righteous way from gilded halls, that hands polluted.
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Speaker 6: Rays bright turns away.
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Speaker 5: With prouder verted eyes, and of the wealth men stamp
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Speaker 5: amiss with praise heedless to poorer, holier temple highs, and
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Speaker 5: to Fate's gold guides, all in its appointed wise hail
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Speaker 5: to thee chief of thy trays his race, returning proud
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Speaker 5: from troy subdued. How shall I greet thy conquering face,
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Speaker 5: how nor a fulsome praise of trud nor stint the
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Speaker 5: meed of gratitude.
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Speaker 6: For mortal men who fall to ills.
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Speaker 8: Take little heed of open truth, but seek unto its semblance.
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Speaker 8: Still the show of weeping and of ruth to the
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Speaker 8: forlorn will all men pay.
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Speaker 5: But of the grief their eyes display nought till the
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Speaker 5: heart doth pierce its way, and with the joy as
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Speaker 5: they beguil'd their lips unto a fainted.
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Speaker 7: Smile and force a joy unfelt the while.
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Speaker 5: But he who, as a shepherd wise doth know his
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Speaker 5: flock can e'er misread truth in the falsehood of his eyes,
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Speaker 5: who veils beneath a kindly guise eloop warm love. Indeed,
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Speaker 5: and thou our leader, when a yore thou mad'st Greece
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Speaker 5: go forth to war for Heaven's sake, I dare avow
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Speaker 5: that then I held THEE, not as now that to
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Speaker 5: my vision thou didst seem died in the hues of disesteem.
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Speaker 6: I held THEE for a.
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Speaker 5: Pilot ill and reckless of thy proper will in thy
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Speaker 5: others doom'd to die with vain and forst audacity. Now
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Speaker 5: from my heart, ungrudgingly to those that wrought this word,
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Speaker 5: be said.
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Speaker 20: Well, fall the labor, ye have sped the time and search,
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Speaker 20: O King, declare what men within my city is bound,
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Speaker 20: were loyal to the king OF's care, and who were
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Speaker 20: faithless found.
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Speaker 1: Agamemnon enters in a chariot, accompanied by Cassandra. He speaks
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Speaker 1: without descending.
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Speaker 4: First, as is meet a king's all. Hail be said
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Speaker 4: to Argos and the gods that guard the land, gods
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Speaker 4: who with me availed to speed us home. With me
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Speaker 4: availed to wring from Priam's town the due of justice
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Speaker 4: in the court of heaven, the gods in conclave sat
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Speaker 4: and the judge the cause not from a pleader's tongue,
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Speaker 4: and at the close unanimous, into the urn of doom.
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Speaker 4: This sentence gave on Ilion and her men death, And
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Speaker 4: where hope drew nigh to pardons, earned no hand there
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Speaker 4: was to cast a vote therein. And still the smoke
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Speaker 4: of fallen Ilion rises in sight of all men, and
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Speaker 4: the flame of atscatomb is living yet, and where the
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Speaker 4: towers and dusty ashes sink rise the rich fumes of
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Speaker 4: pomp and wealth consum'd. For this must all men pay
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Speaker 4: unto the gods the meed of mindful hearts and gratitude,
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Speaker 4: for by our hands the messes of revenge closed on
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Speaker 4: the prey, And for one woman's sake, Troy trodden by
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Speaker 4: the arg of monster, lies the foal. The shielded band
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Speaker 4: that leapt the wall, what time with autumn sank the pleiades,
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Speaker 4: yea o'er the fencing, while a lion sprang ravening and
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Speaker 4: lapp'd his fill of blood. Of kings such preclude a
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Speaker 4: spoken to the gods in full. To you, I turn
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Speaker 4: and to the hidden thing whereof ye spake. But now
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Speaker 4: and in that thought I am as you, And what
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Speaker 4: ye say, say I. For few are they who have
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Speaker 4: such inborn grace as to look upon with love and envy.
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Speaker 4: Not when stands another on the height of the wheal,
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Speaker 4: deep in his heart, whom jealousy hath seized her poison,
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Speaker 4: lurking doth enhance his load. For now, beneath his proper woes,
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Speaker 4: he chafes and sighs withal to see another's weal. I
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Speaker 4: speak not idly, but from knowledge, sure there be wovannton
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Speaker 4: utter loyalty, that is but as the ghost of friendship dead,
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Speaker 4: a shadow and a glass of faith gone by one.
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Speaker 4: Only he who went reluctant forth across the seas with me, Odysseus.
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Speaker 4: He was loyal unto me, with strength and will, a
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Speaker 4: trusty trace horse bound unto my car. Thus be he
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Speaker 4: yet beneath the light of day, or dead as well?
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Speaker 4: I fear I speak his praise. Lastly, whate'er be due
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Speaker 4: to men or gods. With a joint debate in public
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Speaker 4: council held, we will decide and warily contrive that all
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Speaker 4: which now is well may so abide for that which
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Speaker 4: happily needs the healer's art. That will we medicine discerning
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Speaker 4: well left, cautery or knife befit the time now to
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Speaker 4: my palace and the shrines of home, I will pass
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Speaker 4: in and greet you first and fair, ye gods who
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Speaker 4: bade me forth and home again, and long may victory
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Speaker 4: terry in.
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Speaker 1: My train Clytemnestra enters, followed by maidens bearing purple robes,
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Speaker 1: old men.
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Speaker 11: Of Argos, lieges of our realm. Shame shall not bid
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Speaker 11: me shrink, lest ye should see the love I bear,
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Speaker 11: my Lord. Such blushing fear dies at the last, from
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Speaker 11: hearts of human kind, from mine own soul, and from
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Speaker 11: no alien lips. I know and will reveal the life
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Speaker 11: I bore, reluctant through the lingering livelong years, the while
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Speaker 11: my lord beleaguered Ilian's wall. First that a wife sat
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Speaker 11: sundered from her lord in widowed solitude was utter woe
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Speaker 11: and woe to hear how rumors, many tongues all boded
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Speaker 11: evil woe. When he who came and he who followed
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Speaker 11: space of ill on ill keening lost, lost, all lost
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Speaker 11: through hail and bower. Had this my husband met so
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Speaker 11: many wounds as by a thousand channels, rumors hold no
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Speaker 11: network air was full of holes as he had he
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Speaker 11: been slain as oft as tidings came that he was dead,
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Speaker 11: he well might boast him now a second jeryon of
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Speaker 11: triple frame, with triple robe of earth above him laid
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Speaker 11: for that below, no matter how triply dead, dead by
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Speaker 11: one death for every form he bore, and thus distraught
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Speaker 11: by news of wrath and woe oft for self slaughter.
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Speaker 11: Had I slung the noose, but others wrenched it from
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Speaker 11: my neck away? Hencehaps it that orestes thine and mine
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Speaker 11: the pledge and symbol of our wedded troth stands not
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Speaker 11: beside us now as he should stand, nor marvel thou
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Speaker 11: at this he dwells with one who guards him loyally.
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Speaker 11: Tis Phoss's king, Strophius, who warned me eierst bethink thee Queen,
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Speaker 11: what woes of doubtful issue well may fall thy lord
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Speaker 11: in daily jeopardy at Troy, while here a populace us uncurbed.
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Speaker 11: My cry down with the council down, bethink thee too,
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Speaker 11: tis the world's way to set a harder heel on
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Speaker 11: fallen power for thy child's absence. Then such mine excuse
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Speaker 11: no wily afterthought for me. Long since the gushing fount
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Speaker 11: of tears is wept away, no drop is left to shed.
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Speaker 11: Dim are the eyes that ever watched till dawn, weeping
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Speaker 11: the bale fires piled for thy return night after night, unkindled,
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Speaker 11: if I slept, each sound, the tiny humming of a gnat,
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Speaker 11: roused me again again from fitful dreams wherein I felt
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Speaker 11: thee smitten, saw THEE slain thrice for each moment of
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Speaker 11: mine hour of sleep. All this I bore, And now
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Speaker 11: released from woe, I hail my lord, as watchdog of
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Speaker 11: a fold, as saving stay rope of a storm tossed ship,
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Speaker 11: as column stout that holds the roof aloft, as only
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Speaker 11: child unto a sire bereathed, as land beheld past hope
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Speaker 11: by crews, forlorn, as sunshine fair, when tempest's wrath is past,
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Speaker 11: as gushing spring to thirsty wayfarer, so sweet it is
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Speaker 11: to scape the press of pain with such salute, I
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Speaker 11: bid my husband hail, for heaven be wroth therewith for
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Speaker 11: long and hard. I bore that ire of old sweet Lord,
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Speaker 11: step forth, step from thy car. I pray thee nay
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Speaker 11: not on earth, plant the proud foot o king that
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Speaker 11: trod down Troy women, Why tarry ye whose task it
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Speaker 11: is to spread your monarch's path with tapestry, swift, swift,
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Speaker 11: with purple strew his passage fare that justice lead him
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Speaker 11: to a home. At last, he scarcely looked to see
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Speaker 11: for what remains zeal unsubdued my sleep shall nerve my
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Speaker 11: hand to work as right and as the God's command.
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Speaker 4: Daughter of Vida, watch o'er my home. Thy greeting well
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Speaker 4: befits mine absence long for Leyton hardly has it reached
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Speaker 4: its end. Know that the praise which honor bids us
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Speaker 4: crave must come from others's lips, not from our own.
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Speaker 4: See too, that not in fashion feminine, thou make a
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Speaker 4: warrior's pathway delicate, not unto me, as to some eastern lord,
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Speaker 4: bowing thyself to earth, make homage loud strue, Not this
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Speaker 4: purple that shall make each tepan arrogance. Such pomp beseems
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Speaker 4: the gods, not me a mortal man, to set his
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Speaker 4: foot on these richt eyes. I hold such pride in fear,
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Speaker 4: and bid thee honemy as man, not God. Fear not
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Speaker 4: such footcloths, and all gods apart loud from the trump
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Speaker 4: of fame. My name is blown best gift of heaven.
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Speaker 4: It is in Glory's hour to think thereon with soberness,
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Speaker 4: And thou bethink thee of the adage, call none blest
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Speaker 4: till peaceful death hath crown'd a life of weal. Tis
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Speaker 4: said I fain would fare unvex'd by.
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Speaker 11: Fear, nay, but unsay it thwart not thou my will.
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Speaker 4: No I have said, and will not mar my word.
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Speaker 11: Is it fear made this meekness to the gods if.
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Speaker 4: Cause, because tis mine for this resolve.
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Speaker 11: What thinkest thou in thy place? Had priam done, ye.
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Speaker 4: Surely would have walked on broidered robes.
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Speaker 11: Then fear not thou the voice of human blame.
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Speaker 4: Yet mighty is a murmur of a crowd, shrink.
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Speaker 11: Not from envy, appanage of bliss.
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Speaker 4: War is not the woman's part, nor war of words.
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Speaker 11: Yet happy victor's well may yield therein.
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Speaker 4: Dost crave for triumph in this pitied.
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Speaker 11: Strife, yield of thy grace, permit me to prevail.
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Speaker 4: Then, if thou wilt let someone stoop, to loose swiftly
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Speaker 4: these sandals slaves beneath my foot, and stepping thus upon
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Speaker 4: the sea's rich, die, I pray let none among the
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Speaker 4: gods look down with jealous eye on me, reluctant all
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Speaker 4: to trample thus and mar a thing of price, wasting
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Speaker 4: the wealth of garments, silverworth enough hereof And for the
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Speaker 4: stranger maid lead her within. But gently, God on high lands,
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Speaker 4: graciously on him whom Triumph's hour has made not pitiless.
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Speaker 4: None willingly were the slave's yoke, And she, the prize
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Speaker 4: and flower of all we want, comes hither in my
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Speaker 4: train gift of the army to which chief and lord. Now,
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Speaker 4: since in this my will bows down to thine, I
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Speaker 4: will pass in on purples to my home I see.
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Speaker 11: There is, and who shall stay it springs, and deep
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Speaker 11: within its breast a mighty store, precious as silver of
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Speaker 11: the purple dye, whereby the dipped robe doth its tint
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Speaker 11: re new enough of such o king. Within thy halls
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Speaker 11: there lies a store that cannot fail. But I I
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Speaker 11: would have gladly vowed unto the God's cost of a
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Speaker 11: thousand garments trodden. Thus had once the oracle such gift
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Speaker 11: required contriving ransom for thy life preserved. For while the
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Speaker 11: stalk is firm, the foliage climbs, spreading a shade. What
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Speaker 11: time the dog star glows, and thou returning to thine
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Speaker 11: hearth and home art as a genial warmth in winter hours,
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Speaker 11: or as coolness when the Lord of Heaven mellows the
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Speaker 11: juice within the bitter grape. Such boons and more doth
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Speaker 11: bring into a home the present footstep of its proper lord,
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Speaker 11: Zeus Zeus Fulfillment's lord, my vows fulfill And whatsoe'er it
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Speaker 11: be work forth thy will.
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Speaker 1: All but Cassandra and the chorus exit
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Speaker 3: End of Part one,