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He was gone far away from our city
at sea, while we waited for him
twelve long months, and heard nothing.
650Meanwhile his loving wife
with an enduring heart
tearfully wasted away;
but now the furious god of war
has freed her from her time of sorrow.
The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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