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I will sing for you, my mistress, responsive songs and
a barbarian cry of Asian hymns; this song, dear to the dead,
180
Hades sings in laments, in chants—not songs of triumph.
185
Alas for the house of the Atreidae; the light of their scepter, alas, of the ancestral house, is lost. Once they ruled
as prosperous kings in
Argos
, but troubles dart out from troubles: Pelops, on his horses swiftly whirling, made his cast; the sun changed from its seat the holy beam of its rays.
190
One pain comes after another, to the house of the golden lamb. . . . from that earlier time when the Tantalids were killed,
195
punishment came to the house, and fate presses what you do not want upon you.
200
I will sing for you, my mistress, responsive songs and
a barbarian cry of Asian hymns; this song, dear to the dead,
180
Hades sings in laments, in chants—not songs of triumph.
185
Alas for the house of the Atreidae; the light of their scepter, alas, of the ancestral house, is lost. Once they ruled
as prosperous kings in
Argos
, but troubles dart out from troubles: Pelops, on his horses swiftly whirling, made his cast; the sun changed from its seat the holy beam of its rays.
190
One pain comes after another, to the house of the golden lamb. . . . from that earlier time when the Tantalids were killed,
195
punishment came to the house, and fate presses what you do not want upon you.
200
Iphigenia in Tauris. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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