The Priest departs.
Priest
Singing.
896
It is imperative that I sing another sacred chant for the rite of the lustral water, and that I invoke
900
the immortals, or at least one of them, provided always that you have some suitable food to offer him; from what I see here, in the shape of gifts, there is naught whatever but horn and hair.
896
It is imperative that I sing another sacred chant for the rite of the lustral water, and that I invoke
900
the immortals, or at least one of them, provided always that you have some suitable food to offer him; from what I see here, in the shape of gifts, there is naught whatever but horn and hair.
Birds. Aristophanes. ed. Eugene O'Neill, Jr.. New York. 1938.
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