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There was Ares’ murderous dragon, a savage guard,
watching with wandering eye the watery rivers and fresh streams. Cadmus destroyed it with a jagged stone, when he came there to draw lustral water; smiting the deadly head
660
with a blow of his beast-slaying arm; and by the counsel of
PalIas, the motherless goddess, he cast the teeth upon the deep fields to fall to the earth,
665
from which the earth brought forth a sight fully-armed, above the surface of the soil; but grim slaughter once again united them to the earth they loved, bedewing with blood the ground that had
670
shown them to the sunlit breath of heaven.
675
There was Ares’ murderous dragon, a savage guard,
watching with wandering eye the watery rivers and fresh streams. Cadmus destroyed it with a jagged stone, when he came there to draw lustral water; smiting the deadly head
660
with a blow of his beast-slaying arm; and by the counsel of
PalIas, the motherless goddess, he cast the teeth upon the deep fields to fall to the earth,
665
from which the earth brought forth a sight fully-armed, above the surface of the soil; but grim slaughter once again united them to the earth they loved, bedewing with blood the ground that had
670
shown them to the sunlit breath of heaven.
675
The Phoenician Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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