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180He was born of an ancient race,
yielding never to any man;
now, bereft of the gifts of life,
he lives apart from all others
along with spotted and shaggy beasts,
185piteous, hungry, in pain,
bearing incurable ills -
and afar in the mountains
she of the babbling voice,
Echo, responds to his cries of pain,
190wailing sadly around him.

The women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.

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