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Orestes
Ah, my father, if only beneath Ilium's walls [345] you had been slain, slashed by some Lycian spearman! Then you would have left a good name for your children in their halls, and in their maturity you would have made their lives admired by men. [350] And in a land beyond the sea you would have found a tomb heaped high with earth, no heavy burden for your house to bear—
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Libation Bearers. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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