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Line 6

‘Enough of life’ (Ἀρκείτω βίος);

A vebratim allusion to Aeschylus Agamemnon 1314. The words are uttered by Cassandra just before she enters the palace to be murdered

[cf. Notes for a “Week”, Saturday; The Last Dance]

Line 16

‘and yet there is the sea and who will drain it dry?’ (κι όμως υπάρχει η θάλασσα και ποιος θα την εξαντλήσει;);

An allusion to Clytemestra’s words in Aeschylus Agamemnon 958.

[cf. Mythistorema, XX; Notes for a Week, Wednesday; Gymnopaidia, Mycenae; The Last Dance] 

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