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120
I will reproach you with respect, but sternly:
you must not waste your life away in sorrow
hopelessly. Never has Zeus, the king of all things,
granted to mortals life without pain;
but grief and happiness come
to every man in his turn,
130like the circling paths of the Bear.
The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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