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    Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)

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    For the males of the race of Aegyptus, intolerable in their wantonness, chase after me, [820] a fugitive, with clamorous lewdness and seek to lay hold of me with violence. But yours alone is the beam of the balance, and without you what is accomplished for mortals?

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    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Suppliant Women. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
    ISBN: 0674991605

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