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[535] 'Tis folly, folly, that the land of Greece makes great the slaughter of cattle by the banks of the Alpheus and in the Pythian house of Apollo¹ if we pay no honor to Eros, mankind's despot, who holds the keys [540] to the sweet chambers of Aphrodite! He ruins mortals and sets them upon all manner of disaster when he visits them.

1 Olympia and Delphi, holy places of Zeus and Apollo.

Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.

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