"Οἷον ὅτε κλωστῆρα γυνὴ ταλαεργὸς ἑλίσσει ἐννυχίη· τῇ δ᾽ ἀμφὶ κινύρεται ὀρφανὰ τέκνα χηροσύνῃ πόσιος· σταλάει δ᾽ ὑπὸ δάκρυ παρειὰς μνωομένης, οἵη μιν ἐπὶ σμυγερὴ λάβεν αἶσα· ὧς τῆς ἰκμαίνοντο παρηίδες· ἐν δέ οἱ ἦτορ ὀξείῃς εἰλεῖτο πεπαρμένον ἀμφ᾽ ὀδύνῃσιν."
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Even as when a toiling woman turns her spindle through the night, and round her moan her orphan children, for she is a widow, and down her cheeks fall the tears, as she bethinks her how dreary a lot hath seized her; so Medea's cheeks were wet; and her heart within her was in agony, pierced with sharp pain. — Lines 1062–1067 (tr. R. C. Seaton)
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