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]]