Note 446 — Chapter LXXIII · AGESILAUS KING OF SPARTA. — THE CORINTHIAN WAR.
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Ἴδ᾽ οἷον, ὦ παῖδες, προσέμιξεν ἄφαρ Τοὔπος τὸ θεοπρόπον ἡμῖν Τῆς παλαιφάτου προνοίας, Ὅ τ᾽ ἔλακεν, etc.
This is a splendid chorus of the Trachiniæ of Sophokles (822) proclaiming their sentiments on the awful death of Hêraklês, in the tunic of Nessus, which has just been announced as about to happen.