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. Ye are not left unhonoured; be not hot

In wrath, ye Goddesses, to mar man's land,

I too, yes I, trust Zeus. Need I say more?

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I only of the high Gods know the keys

Of chambers where the sealed-up thunder lies;