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Rh Cut—to the citizens

A hate immense!

Now, indeed, thou adjudgest exile to me,

And citizens' hate, and to have popular curses:

Nothing of this against the man here bringing,

Who, no more awe-checked than as 't were a beast's fate,—

With sheep abundant in the well-fleeced graze-flocks,—

Sacrificed his child,—dearest fruit of travail

To me,—as song-spell against Threkian blowings.

Not him did it behove thee hence to banish

—Pollution's penalty? But hearing my deeds

Justicer rough thou art! Now, this I tell thee:

To threaten thus—me, one prepared to have thee