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Thou such things soundest—seated at the lower

Oarage to those who rule at the ship's mid-bench?

Thou shalt know, being old, how heavy is teaching

To one of the like age—bidden be modest!

But chains and old age and the pangs of fasting

Stand out before all else in teaching,—prophets

At souls'-cure! Dost not, seeing aught, see this too?

Against goads kick not, lest tript-up thou suffer!

Woman, thou,—of him coming new from battle

Houseguard—thy husband's bed the while disgracing,—

For the Army-leader didst thou plan this fate too?