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Page 113
So she spake , and the old woman covered her face with her hands and shed hot tears , and spake a word of lamentation , saying : “ Ah , woe is me , Odysseus , my child , for thy sake , all helpless that I am !
So she spake , and the old woman covered her face with her hands and shed hot tears , and spake a word of lamentation , saying : “ Ah , woe is me , Odysseus , my child , for thy sake , all helpless that I am !
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How like a woman , quickly light of heart . They made me out a fool with wits astray . Yet did I sacrifice , and everywhere , throughout the town , one man and then another followed a woman , joining in her praise , echoing her triumph ...
How like a woman , quickly light of heart . They made me out a fool with wits astray . Yet did I sacrifice , and everywhere , throughout the town , one man and then another followed a woman , joining in her praise , echoing her triumph ...
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ANOTHER : Steadfast in pain , O woman brave of heart . CASSANDRA : None who are happy ever hear such praise . ANOTHER : A brave death can make happy one who dies . CASSANDRA : My father , you were brave , and brave your sons .
ANOTHER : Steadfast in pain , O woman brave of heart . CASSANDRA : None who are happy ever hear such praise . ANOTHER : A brave death can make happy one who dies . CASSANDRA : My father , you were brave , and brave your sons .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Masterworks of World Literature, Volume 1 Masterworks of World Literature, Edwin Mallard Everett |
| Editor | Edwin Mallard Everett |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Dryden Press, 1955 |
| Length | 1000 pages |
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