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Myself have traced the Muses’ path, have soared amid the stars, have laid my hold on many a theme,
and yet have found naught stronger than necessity, no spell inscribed on Thracian tablets written there by Orpheus, the sweet singer,
965
no! nor aught among the simples culled by Phoebus for the toiling race of men, and given to Asclepius’ sons.
970
Myself have traced the Muses’ path, have soared amid the stars, have laid my hold on many a theme,
and yet have found naught stronger than necessity, no spell inscribed on Thracian tablets written there by Orpheus, the sweet singer,
965
no! nor aught among the simples culled by Phoebus for the toiling race of men, and given to Asclepius’ sons.
970
Alcestis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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