Chorus
O home of hospitality, thrown open by thy lord to all now and ever!
In thee it was that Pythian Apollo, the sweet harper, deigned to make his home, and in thy halls was content to lead a shepherd’s life,
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piping o’er the sloping downs shepherd’s madrigals to thy flocks.
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Alcestis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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