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[40] And now I invoke, as our champion from beyond the sea, the calf born of Zeus, the offspring of the flower-grazing cow, our ancestress, [45] the caress of Zeus' breath. The appointed period confirmed itself in a name suited to the event—Epaphus1, to whom she gave birth.
1 Epaphus signifies “touch,” “caress.” See l. 315.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Suppliant Women. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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