SILENUS O Bromius, unnumbered are the toils I bear because of thee, no less now than when I was young and hale; first, when thou wert driven mad by Hera and didst leave the mountain nymphs, thy...

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PEASANT O Argos, ancient land, and streams of Inachus, whence on a day king Agamemnon sailed to the realm of Troy, carrying his warriors aboard a thousand ships; and after he had slain Priam who was...

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GHOST Lo! I am come from out the charnel-house and gates of gloom, where Hades dwells apart from gods, I Polydorus, a son of Hecuba the daughter of Cisseus and of Priam. Now my father, when Phrygia's...

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HELEN Lo! These are the fair virgin streams of Nile, the river that waters Egypt's tilth, fed by pure melting snow instead of rain from heaven. Proteus during his life-time was king of this land,...

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AMPHITRYON What mortal hath not heard of him who shared a wife with Zeus, Amphitryon of Argos, whom on a day Alcaeus, son of Perseus begat, Amphitryon the father of Heracles? He it was dwelt here in...

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APHRODITE Wide o'er man my realm extends, and proud the name that I, the goddess Cypris, bear, both in heaven's courts and 'mongst all those who dwell within the limits of the sea and the bounds of...

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MERCURY Atlas, that on his brazen shoulders rolls  Yon heaven, the ancient mansion of the gods,  Was by a goddess sire to Maia; she  To supreme Jove bore me, and call'd me Hermes;  Attendant on the...

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AGAMEMNON Old man, come hither and stand before my dwelling. ATTENDANT I come; what new schemes now, king Agamemnon? AGAMEMNON Thou shalt hear. ATTENDANT I am all eagerness. 'Tis little enough sleep...
IPHIGENIA To Pisa, by the fleetest coursers borne,  Comes Pelops, son of Tantalus, and weds  The virgin daughter of Oenomaus:  From her sprung Atreus; Menelaus from him,  And Agamemnon; I from him...
NURSE Ah! Would to Heaven the good ship Argo ne'er had sped its course to the Colchian land through the misty blue Symplegades, nor ever in the glens of Pelion the pine been felled to furnish with...

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