Ah, miserable man! his wedlock dire,
Vexed sore with that dread shame,
With heart to madness driven,
He wrought a twofold ill,
And with the hand that smote his father's life
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[*]Blinded the eyes that might his sons have seen.
Antistrophe V
And with a mind provoked
By nurture scant, he at his sons did hurl[[121]]