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[3] The priestess gave this answer to their question: “Hated by your neighbors, dear to the immortals,
Crouch with a lance in rest, like a warrior fenced in his armor,
Guarding your head1 from the blow, and the head will shelter the body.

This answer had already been uttered by the priestess when the envoys arrived in Argos and entered the council chamber to speak as they were charged.

1 That is, those with full citizenship, the nucleus of the population;σῶμα being the remainder.

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