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Rh This marriage-care—the rightly named so—sent:

In after-time, for the tables' abuse

And that of the hearth-partaker Zeus,

Bringing to punishment

Those who honored with noisy throat

The honor of the bride, the hymenæal note

Which did the kinsfolk then to singing urge.

But, learning a new hymn for that which was,

The ancient city of Priamos

Groans probably a great and general dirge,

Denominating Paris

"The man that miserably marries:"—

She who, all the while before,

A life, that was a general dirge

For citizens' unhappy slaughter, bore.