Unseemly be exposed,

Having the heifer's offspring put to shame,

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Whom he himself begat,

And now his face averting from our prayers:

Ah, may he hear on high,

Yea, pitying look and hear propitiously!

By thine ire, Zeus, 'gainst Io virulent,

The Gods' wrath seeks us out,

And I know well the woe