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073]<br />

To whom the king: "My brother<br />

and my friend,<br />

Thus, always thus, may Heaven thy<br />

life defend!<br />

Now seek some skilful hand, whose<br />

powerful art<br />

May stanch the effusion, and extract<br />

the dart.<br />

Herald, be swift, and bid Machaon<br />

bring<br />

His speedy succour to the Spartan<br />

king;<br />

Pierced with a winged shaft (the<br />

deed <strong>of</strong> Troy),<br />

<strong>The</strong> Grecian's sorrow, and the<br />

Dardan's joy."<br />

With hasty zeal the swift Talthybius<br />

flies;<br />

Through the thick files he darts his<br />

searching eyes,

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