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"Be thou my light and saviour where I pray

In this my fatherland returned, restored."

Our noble Aeschylus repeats himself.

How so?

Observe his phrasing, and you'll see.

First to this land "returned" and then "restored";

'Returned' is just the same thing as 'restored.'

Why, yes! It's just as if you asked your neighbour,

'Lend me a pail, or, if not that, a bucket.'

Oh, too much talking has bemuzzed your brain!

The words are not the same; the line is perfect.

Now, is it really? Tell me how you mean.

Returning home is the act of any person

Who has a home; he comes back, nothing more;

An exile both returns and is restored!

True, by Apollo! (To ) What do you say to that?