Of these my words. The greater bulk of things

I will pass o'er, and to the very goal

Of all thy wanderings go. For when thou cam'st

To the Molossian plains, and by the grove[[192]]

Of lofty-ridged Dodona, and the shrine

Oracular of Zeus Thesprotian,

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And the strange portent of the talking oaks,

By which full clearly, not in riddle dark,

Thou wast addressed as noble spouse of Zeus,—