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135O master, how must I, a stranger in a strange land,
speak or dissemble before this wary man?
Tell me: for that man
surpasses other men
in wisdom and in skill who rules
140with the sanction of God.
To you, my son, has come now
all of that ancient power: tell me,
how may I assist you?
The women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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