Or seer or priest;

But tempered to the fate that on him smote....

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When that Achæan host

Were vexed with adverse winds and failing stores,

Still kept where Chalkis in the distance lies,

And the vexed waves in Aulis ebb and flow;

Strophe III

And breezes from the Strymon sweeping down,

Breeding delays and hunger, driving forth