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Then she adjures him by all the sacred ties, and dwells pathetically on the circumstance which had struck even Menelaus.

Never have the names of father and daughter been uttered with a holier tenderness than by Euripides, as in this most lovely passage, or in the “Supplicants,” after the voluntary death of Evadne; Iphis says