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Smote me, as charioteer

Smites with a goad he in the middle grasps,

Beneath my breast, my heart;

'Tis ours to feel the keen, the o'er keen smart,

As by the public scourger fiercely lashed.

Antistrophe II

Such are the doings of these younger Gods,

Beyond all bounds of right

Stretching their power.... A clot of blood besmeared