A Danaid
May mighty Zeus defend me from marriage with
Aegyptus
’ race!
A Handmaiden
That would indeed be best.
A Danaid
But you would move the immovable.
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A Handmaiden
And you do not know what the future has in store.
Supplices. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1922.
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