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[944] So too endured Danae in her beauty to change [945] the light of the sky for brass-bound walls, and in that chamber, both burial and bridal, she was held in strict confinement. And yet was she of esteemed lineage, my daughter, [950] and guarded a deposit of the seed of Zeus that had fallen in a golden rain. But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate—there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by towered city, or dark, sea-beaten ships.

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    • Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Antigone, STRUCTURE OF THE PLAY.
    • William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter VI
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