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Tuesday Afternoon

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3. actually, that is the World History (Group) listed under Arts & Humanities (Topics)
Mon Mar 24, 2014, 10:29 AM
Mar 2014

and Yes, I am thoroughly confused now

Including an excerpt =


Here's one translation

Still, you keep on twittering that Charaxos
comes, his boat full. That kind of thing I reckon
Zeus and his fellow gods know; and you mustn’t
make the assumption;

rather, command me, let me be an envoy
praying intensely to the throne of Hera
who could lead him, he and his boat arriving
here, my Charaxos,

finding me safely; let us then divert all
other concerns on to the lesser spirits;
after all, after hurricanes the clear skies
rapidly follow;

and the ones whose fate the Olympian ruler
wants to transform from troubles into better –
they are much blessed, they go about rejoicing
in their good fortune.

As for me, if Larichos reaches manhood,
if he could manage to be rich and leisured,
he would give me, so heavy-hearted, such a
swift liberation.

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