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Would that a favoring breeze
might come to my house with power
to waft me far from these regions, lest
I die from terror
as soon as I see
Zeus's glorious son.
For they say he is coming home
960racked by unshakable pain -
a wonder not to be spoken!
The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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