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50 And someone, girding me, said "Through fire-bearers

Persuaded—Troia to be sacked now, thinkest?

Truly, the woman's way,—high to lift heart up!"

By such words I was made seem wit-bewildered:

Yet still I sacrificed; and,—female-song with,—

A shout one man and other, through the city,

Set up, congratulating in the gods' seats,

Soothing the incense-eating flame right fragrant.

And now, what's more, indeed, why need'st thou tell me?

I of the king himself shall learn the whole word:

And,—as may best be,—I my revered husband

Shall hasten, as he comes back, to receive: for—

What's to a wife sweeter to see than this light

(Her husband, by the god saved, back from warfare)

So as to open gates? This tell my husband—