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When the mother ceased from her wild
wandering toil, searching for the treacherous rape of her daughter, she crossed the snow-capped heights of the nymphs of
Mount Ida
;
1320
and in sorrow cast herself down in the rocky woods deep in snow; and, by not making fruitful with crops the barren fields of the earth for mortals, she destroyed the human race.
1325
She would not send forth the rich nourishment of leafy tendrils for the herds, and life was leaving the cities. No sacrifice was offered to the gods, and on the altars were no cakes to burn;
1330
she made the dew-fed springs of clear water cease flowing, the avenger in sorrow for her child.
1335
When the mother ceased from her wild
wandering toil, searching for the treacherous rape of her daughter, she crossed the snow-capped heights of the nymphs of
Mount Ida
;
1320
and in sorrow cast herself down in the rocky woods deep in snow; and, by not making fruitful with crops the barren fields of the earth for mortals, she destroyed the human race.
1325
She would not send forth the rich nourishment of leafy tendrils for the herds, and life was leaving the cities. No sacrifice was offered to the gods, and on the altars were no cakes to burn;
1330
she made the dew-fed springs of clear water cease flowing, the avenger in sorrow for her child.
1335
Helen. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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