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Shall I then wail and groan?

Or what else shall I do?

Shall I become a woe intolerable

Unto these men for wrongs I have endured?

Great, very great are they,

Ye virgin daughters of dim Night, ill-doomed,

Born both to shame and woe!

Athena. Nay, list to me, and be not over-grieved;

Ye have not been defeated, but the cause