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imaginations brought them into suffering never te
be forgot.

Verily there is a vengeance from on high, and
happy he that weaveth merrily one day's weft with-
outatear. And so. as for me, 1! sing now of the
light that is Agido’s. Bright I see it as the very
sun's which the same Agido now invoketh to shine
upon us.= And yet neither praise nor blame can |
give at all to such as she without offence to our
splendid leader, who herself appeareth as pre-eminent
as would a well-knit steed of ringing hoot that over-
cometh in the race, if he were set to graze among
the unsubstantial cattle > of our dreams that fly.

See you not first that the courser is of Enetic
hleod, ‘and secondly that the tresses that bloom
upon my cousin Hagesichora 4 are like the purest
gold? and as for her silvern face. how shall 1 put
it you in express words? Such is Hagesichora; and
yet she whose beauty shall run second not unto hers
but unto Agido’s, shall run as courser Colaxaean to
pure Ibenian-bred; for as we bear along her robe
to Orthia, these our Doves® rise to fight for us®

1 each οὗ the performers * the invocation was prob. part
of the ritual and took place in dumb-show as these words were
sune 8 ar, horses * she takes her nickname froin her
position as Choir-leader, Agido being second in command : i
was prob. partot the ritual that the dancers should be cousins
(ef. Pind, Purth.. Proc]. ap. Phot. Bik’, 230 5 the leader
and her second were apparently called, and perhaps dressed
as, doves ; this was also the name of the vonstellation of the
Piviades : Orthia (later Artemis Orthia was a bird-goddess
ὁ against the competing choruses

ireams give us unsubstantial, coat” wondertully am, vy
(Sheppard) 8 pap. (.]s 7 pap. aura 3 optia:

Hehe: text ὁρήρίαι : pap. φᾶρος: Win. πὶ wow. Aes. BOL 51 φάσις

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