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And in the hreath she passed aumy. " Undone — me miserable ! " moaned the king, ssz While friends released the long -suspended sigh, " Gone is she : no wife for Admetos more ! "
Sucji was the signal : hoio the woe hrohe forth, ses Why tell ? — or how the children's tears ran fast Bidding their father note the eyelids' stare, Hands' droop, each dreadful circumstance of death.
" Ay, she hears not, she sees not : I and you,
'T is plain, are stricken hard and have to bear ! " 590
Was all Admetos answered.
So, friends came round him, took him hy the hand, 6O6
Bade him remember our mortality.
Its due, its doom: hoiv neither was he first.
Nor would he last, to thus deplore the loved.
" I understand," slov) the icords came at last. eio
- ' Nor of a sudden did the evil here
Fly on me : I have known it long ago,
Ay, and essayed myself in misery ;
Nothing is new. You have to stay, you friends,
Because the next need is to carry forth eis
The corpse here : you must stay and do your part.
Chant proper paean to the God below ;
Drink-sacrifice he likes not. I decree
That all Thessalians over whom I rule
Hold gi'ief in common with me ; let them shear 620
Their locks, and be the peplos black they show !
And you who to the chariot yoke your steeds,
Or manage steeds one-frontleted, — I charge.
Clip from each neck with steel the mane away !
