Than all one's days to suffer pain and grief.

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Prom. My struggles then full hardly thou would'st bear,

For whom there is no destiny of death;

For that might bring a respite from my woes:

But now there is no limit to my pangs

Till Zeus be hurled out from his sovereignty.

Io. What! shall Zeus e'er be hurled from his high state?

Prom. Thou would'st rejoice, I trow, to see that fall.

Io. How should I not, when Zeus so foully wrongs me?