For the high Gods have sworn a mighty oath,
His father's fall, laid low, shall bring him back.
Why then do I thus groan in this new home,[[372]]
When, to begin with, Ilion's town I saw
Faring as it did fare, and they who held
That town are gone by judgment of the Gods?
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I too will fare as they, and venture death:
So I these gates of Hades now address,
And pray for blow that bringeth death at once,