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[Chorus of Handmaidens]
But for the fugitives I have boding fears of blasts of harm and cruel distress and bloody wars. [1045] How did they make such a smooth voyage when pursuit followed fast upon their track? Whatever is fated, that will come to pass. The mighty, untrammelled will of Zeus cannot be transgressed. [1050] Marriage has been the destiny of many women before our time.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Suppliant Women. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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