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Athena
by:
Bacchylides
(5th century B.C.)
translated by John Herman Merivale
Folded arms and sauntering pace
Come not nigh this holy place.
She whose image here is seen,
Golden-Ægis-bearing queen,
Dread Itonia, doth ordain
For the suppliants at her fane
Other services than these--
Tributes rare from bended knees.
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