Stasimon 2
[Choral]
Never may there appear to me or to my children’s children
Chorus
the prospect which the wealthy Lydian ladies and Phrygia’s brides will havePerhaps Tyrrwhitt’s σχήσουσι should be read for στήσουσι. as at their looms they converse:
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Tell me, who will pluck me away from my ruined country, tightening his grasp on lovely tresses till the tears flow? it is all through you, the offspring of the long-necked swan; if indeed it is a true report
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that Leda boreReading ἔτεκεν with Musgrave for ἔτυχεν. you to a winged bird, when Zeus transformed himself there, or whether, in the tablets of the poets, fables have carried these tales to men’s ears
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