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Nobody knows so as to tell out clearly

Excepting Helios who sustains earth's nature.

How say'st thou then, did storm the naval army

Attack and end, by the celestials' anger?

It suits not to defile a day auspicious

With ill-announcing speech: distinct each god's due:

And when a messenger with gloomy visage

To a city bears a fall'n host's woes—God ward off!—

One popular wound that happens to the city,

And many sacrificed from many households—