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AGAMEMNON.
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KASSANDRA.

And yet too well I know the speech Hellenic.


CHOROS.

For Puthian oracles, thy speech, and hard too!


KASSANDRA.

Papai: what fire this! and it comes upon me!
Ototoi, Lukeion Apollon, ah me—me!
She, the two-footed lioness that sleeps with
The wolf, in absence of the generous lion,
Kills me the unhappy one: and as a poison
Brewing, to put my price too in the anger,
She vows, against her mate this weapon whetting
To pay him back the bringing me, with slaughter.