Look! Now again, for the third time, has the tempest of this clan burst on the royal house and run its course. First, at the beginning, came the cruel woes of children slain for food; next, the fate of a man, a king,
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when the warlord of the Achaeans perished, murdered in his bath. And now, once again, there has come from somewhere a third, a deliverer, or shall I say a doom?
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Oh when will it finish its work, when will the fury of calamity, lulled to rest, find an end and cease?
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Libation Bearers. Aeschylus. Herbert Weir Smyth (Translator). New York. 1926.
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