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72, E. But the scepticism of JSschylus in T. 165, el rb fiaTaP drrb ^povriSog &x^og XP^ paXtiVp ■eemi to amount to absolute ridicnie of tho popular polytheism. Digitized by Google 162—206 AOAMEMNON. 10' when inyoked, by this do I address him; balancing all reasons. I am not able to make any further guess, except Jove, if in truth it behoves me to cast off the groimdless burthen of anxiety. Nor can he who before was great, flourishing in unconquerable boldness say aught, as one that has passed a...way'; and he who existed next has passed away, having found his third thrower*. But any one that cheerfiilly cele- brates Jove in songs of triumph shall completely attain to understanding; him that leads mortals the way to wisdom, that places knowledge upon suffering, firmly to remain*. But e'en in slumber the pang of the memory of ills keeps dripping before the heart, and Wisdom hath come to, the wayward. But 'tis a gift, I ween, of the divinities who sit severely* on the awfiil bench. Then too the senior leader of the ships of the Greeks, blaming no seer, but breathing with the fortunes that befell him ^when the Grecian host was afficted by stress of weather*, while it was occupying the coast beyond Chalcis, in the refluent coasts of Aidis, and blasts that came from the Strymon, of evil holiday, of direful famine, and ill anchorage, stray guides to mortals, imsparing both of ships and cables, rendering the time [of voyage] twice the length were carding down with delay* the flower of the Greeks; when moreover the seer loudly announced to the chieftains another more grievous remedy for the fell tempest^, bring- ing forward Diana ; so that the Atreidse, smiting the ground with their sceptres, checked not the tear, and the elder monarch spake thus aloud: "Hard is the fate not to obey; ' I have done my best with this awkward passage^ following Klausen's version, ** nihil amplius dicat^ quom de eo actum sit.'' But I am by no means satisfied.
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