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48 Such as, unbearable, Idaian snow brought—

Or heat, when waveless, on its noontide couches

Without a wind, the sea would slumber falling

—Why must one mourn these? O'er and gone is labour:

O'er and gone is it, even to those dead ones,

So that no more again they mind uprising.

Why must we tell in numbers those deprived ones,

And the live man be vexed with fate's fresh outbreak?

Rather, I bid full farewell to misfortunes!

For us, the left from out the Argeian army,

The gain beats, nor does sorrow counterbalance.

So that 't is fitly boasted of, this sunlight,

By us, o'er sea and land the aery flyers,

"Troia at last taking, the band of Argives

Hang up such trophies to the gods of Hellas