Stasimon 2
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persuaded Atreus’ own wife to secret love, and carried off to his house the portent; coming before the assembly he declared that he had in his
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house the horned sheep with fleece of gold.
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[Choral 2]
Then, it was then that Zeus changed the radiant paths of the stars, and the light of the sun, and the
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bright face of dawn; and the sun drove across the western back of the sky with hot flame from heaven’s fires, while the rain-clouds went northward and Ammon’s
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lands grew parched and faint, not knowing moisture, robbed of heaven’s fairest showers of rain.
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It is said, but I have small belief in it, that the sun turned round his glowing
throne of gold, changing it to the misfortune of mankind, for the punishment of mortals. But tales that frighten men are profitable for service to the gods; of whom you had no thought, when you
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killed your husband, you who are the relative of famous brothers.
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