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565βροτοὶ δ᾽, οἳ γᾶς τότ᾽ ἦσαν ἔννομοι
χλωρῷ δείματι θυμὸν
πάλλοντ᾽ ὄψιν ἀήθη,
βοτὸν ἐσορῶντες δυσχερὲς μειξόμβροτον,
τὰν μὲν βοός,
570τὰν δ᾽ αὖ γυναικός: τέρας δ᾽ ἐθάμβουν.
καὶ τότε δὴ τίς ἦν ὁ θέλ-
ξας πολύπλαγκτον ἀθλίαν
οἰστροδόνητον Ἰώ;

Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Suppliant Women. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.

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