Or shall I say this prayer, as men are wont,

“Good recompense make thou to those who bring

These garlands,” yea, a gift full well deserved

By deeds of ill? Or dumb, with ignominy

Like that with which he perished, shall I pour

Libations on the earth, and like a man

That flings away the lustral filth, shall I

Throw down the urn and walk with eyes not turned?[[408]]

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Be sharers in my counsels, O my friends;