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Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments

Note 364 — AGAMEMNON

E. H. (Edward Hayes) Plumptre translation

In the marriage-rites of the Greeks of the time of Æschylos, the bride for three days after the wedding wore her veil; then, as now no longer shrinking from her matron life, she laid it aside and looked on her husband with unveiled face.

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