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It is absolutely preposterous to suppose that the effect on a Greek ear of a strophe even of Sophocles or Euripides, let alone the great Agamemnonian choruses, was anything like the effect on an English ear of such wooden stuff as this: "Three brothers roved the field, And to two did Destiny Give the thrones that they conquer'd, But the third, what delays him From his unattained crown?"
He shall uproot Argos and Agamemnonian Mycenae, and the Aeacid's own heir, the seed of Achilles mighty in arms, avenging his ancestors in Troy and Minerva's polluted temple. Whither whirl you me all breathless, O Fabii? thou art he, the most mighty, the one man whose lingering retrieves our State.
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