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In another he invokes the help of Zeus in requiting his friends and foes according to their deserts, whilst he describes himself as one who—

The bitterness of his feelings at the 'wrong' he has suffered is intensified, in the sequel of this fragment, into the expression of a wish "one day to drink the very blood" of them that have done it. But perhaps the most touching and specific allusion to his spoliation is where the return of spring—to send another's plough over his ancestral fields—brings up to his remembrance the change in his fortunes:—

A kindred feeling of pain breathes in another passage à propos of autumn and its harvest-homes. And this pain he seeks to allay sometimes by reminding himself that womanish repinings will but gratify his foes, and