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'In we row, bringing more Euripides!'All the crowd, as they lined the harbour now,'More of Euripides!'—took up the cry.We landed; the whole city, soon astir,Came rushing out of gates in common joyTo the suburb temple; there they stationed meO' the topmost step: and plain I told the play,Just as I saw it; what the actors said,And what I saw, or thought I saw the while,At our Kameiros theatre, clean-scoopedOut of a hill-side, with the sky aboveAnd sea before our seats in marble row:Told it, and, two days more, repeated it,Until they sent us on our way againWith good words and great wishes.Oh, for me—A wealthy Syracusan brought a wholeTalent and bade me take it for myself;