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Such suffering my eyes have never seen: they say
Ixion once went near to the sacred bed
of Zeus, and was cast by the god to the depths on a wheel of fire;
but I have never beheld or heard of another
680whose fate was harder than this man's.
He did no wrong to any man alive,
but lived at peace with all: yet now
he wastes away unjustly.
I cannot understand how he
685ever was able to live all alone
and hear the waves around him,
enduring a life so full of tears.
The women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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