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6 —The strenuous yoke-pair of the Atreidai's honor

Two-throned, two-sceptred, whereof Zeus was donor—

Did from this land the aid, the armament dispatch,

The thousand-sailored force of Argives clamouring

"Ares" from out the indignant breast, as fling

Passion forth vultures which, because of grief

Away,—as are their young ones,—with the thief,

Lofty above their brood-nests wheel in ring,

Row round and round with oar of either wing,

Lament the bedded chicks, lost labour that was love:

Which hearing, one above

—Whether Apollon, Pan or Zeus—that wail,

Sharp-piercing bird-shriek of the guests who fare

Housemates with gods in air—

Suchanone sends, against who these assail,