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AGAMEMNON.

HERALD.

Nobody knows so as to tell out clearly
Excepting Helios who sustains earth's nature.


CHOROS.

How say'st thou then, did storm the naval army
Attack and end, by the celestials' anger?


HERALD.

It suits not to defile a day auspicious
With ill-announcing speech: distinct each god's due:
And when a messenger with gloomy visage
To a city bears a fall'n host's woes—God ward off!—
One popular wound that happens to the city,
And many sacrificed from many households—