May it be mine to smite her and then die!

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Antistrophe VII

Chor. Yea, he was maimed![[429]] (that thou the tale may'st know)

And as she slaughtered, so she buried him,

Seeking to work a doom

For thy young life all unendurable.

Now thou dost hear the woes

Thy father suffered, stained with foulest shame.

Antistrophe VIII