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EURIPIDES by ALEXANDER AETOLUS

First Line: ANAXAGORAS' WARD WAS AS TRUE AS HIS LORD, BUT TO TALK TO A LITTLE AUSTERE
Last Line: BUT WHATEVER HE WROTE, FROM HIS HONEY-SWEET THROAT A SIREN-SONG CAME TO THE EAR.
Subject(s): EURIPIDES (484-406 B.C.);
ANAXAGORAS' ward was as true as his lord, but to talk to a little austere.
Jokes were not in his line, and not even in wine had he learned how to jape or
to jeer;
But whatever he wrote, from his honey-sweet throat a Siren-song came to the ear.



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