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Rh That he may learn the tyranny of Zeus

To love, and cease from his man-loving ways. Heph. Kratos and Bia, your charge from Zeus

Already has its end, and nothing further in the way;

But I cannot endure to bind

A kindred god by force to a bleak precipice,—

Yet absolutely there 's necessity that I have courage for these things;

For it is hard the Father's words to banish.

High-plotting son of the right-counseling Themis,

Unwilling thee unwilling in brazen fetters hard to be loosed

I am about to nail to this inhuman hill,

Where neither voice [you 'll hear], nor form of any mortal

See, but, scorched by the sun's clear flame,

Will change your color's bloom; and to you glad

The various-robed night will conceal the light,

And sun disperse the morning frost again;

And always the burden of the present ill

Will wear you; for he that will relieve you has not yet been born.

Such fruits you 've reaped from your man-loving ways,

For a god, not shrinking from the wrath of gods,