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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng3" xml:lang="eng"><sp><l n="1190">hard to be drive away.  Lodged within its halls they chant their chant, the primal sin; and, each in turn, they spurn with loathing a brother’s bed, for they bitterly spurn the one who defiled it.<note anchored="true" n="1193" resp="Smyth">Thyestes’ corruption of Aerope, wife of his brother Atreus.</note>Have I missed the mark, or, like a true archer, do I strike my quarry?</l><l n="1195">Or am I prophet of lies, a door-to-door babbler?  Bear witness upon your oath that I know the deeds of sin, ancient in story, of this house.
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               How could an oath, a pledge although given in honor, effect any cure?  Yet I marvel at you that,</l></sp></div></body></text></TEI>
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