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 | | CHRYSOTHEMIS For my part, friends, I am not wholly unused to her discourse; nor should I have touched upon this theme, had I not heard that she was threatened with a dread doom, which shall restrain her from her long-drawn laments. |
 | | CHRYSOTHEMIS 'Tis said that she beheld our sire, restored to the sunlight, at her side once more; then he took the sceptre,- Once his own, but now borne by Aegisthus,- and planted it at the hearth; and thence a fruitful bough sprang upward, wherewith the whole land of Mycenae was overshadowed. |
 | | CHRYSOTHEMIS Yea, and before she spake, my friends, were she blest with a sound mind, she would have remembered caution, as she doth not remember it. |
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