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The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus Translated into English Verse

Aeschylus, 526 BCE-457 BCE; Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 44,047 words

In this Antistrophe, and the preceding Strophe, there is one of those plays on the name of the god addressed, which appear inappropriate to us, {352} but were meant earnestly enough by the ancients, accustomed to deal with an original language from which the significancy of pr...

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2. v. 133-5

"Then another deed devised Achilles, godlike, swift of foot; Stationed sad behind the pyre he dipt his locks of yellow hair, Which, luxuriant shed, he cherished to Spercheius' f...

1. Canto V.

In this Antistrophe, and the preceding Strophe, there is one of those plays on the name of the god addressed, which appear inappropriate to us, {352} but were meant earnestly en...