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I in the days that are past have in fellowship mingled with heroes Mightier even than you, yet among them I never was slighted. Never their like did I see, nor shall look on their equals hereafter Such as Perithöus was, or as Dryas the shepherd of people, Kaineus, Exadius too the compeer of the bless'd, Polyphemus; Ægeus' glorious son, as a God in his countenance, Theseus.
In this sort was our marriage disturbed, like the marriage of Hyppodame and Perithous.
Thus the stage is left to the chorus, and the mysterious fate of Oedipus is recited by the Nuntius, in verses which Longinus has not extolled too highly. Oedipus had led the way to a cavern, well known in legendary lore as the spot where Perithous and Theseus had pledged their faith, by the brazen steps which make one of the entrances to the infernal realms;
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