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Athena
I am glad that they are zealously accomplishing these things for my land; and I am grateful to Persuasion, [970] that her glance kept watch over my tongue and mouth, when I encountered their fierce refusal. But Zeus of the assembly has prevailed.1 Our rivalry in doing good is victorious forever. [975]
1 Zeus presides over the assemblies of citizens and directs the speech of public men.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Eumenides. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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