Whom more than all the rest the Muses suckled, In the first circle of the prison blind; Ofttimes we of the mountain hold discourse Which has our nurses ever with itself. Euripides is with us, Antiphon, 972 Simonides, Agatho, and many other 973 Greeks who of old their brows with laurel decked. There some of thine own people may be seen, Antigone, Deiphile and Argìa, 974 And there Ismene mournful as of old. There she is seen who pointed out Langìa; 975 There is Tiresias’ daughter, and there Thetis, 976 And there Deidamia with her sisters.” 977 Silent already were the poets both, Attent once more in looking round about, From the ascent and from the walls released; And four handmaidens of the day already 978

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