Along with the boy's mother, to wit, Eurydice, female womanly
bands arose, and troops of common people about her, to wit,
his nurse, and along with that little boy's nurse was Hypsipyle
and along with her his two foster-brothers, the two sons of Jason,
son of Aeson. But when Eurydice, the boy's mother, came out
at the gate of the town, she spoke with a loud voice, and this
is what she said : " Son," said she, " this is not a fate for thee
that I can endure. And it is sad for me entrusting thee for
thine upbringing and nurture to a treacherous perfidious woman
of the people of the isle of Lemnos ! And Greeks," said she,
" do not any longer spend your wealth and treasures in the
festive fires of this sacrifice, but let the woman in whose charge
the boy was destroyed, to wit, Hypsipyle, be burnt Jpy you, and
let me be burnt along with her."

And when she had finished saying that, Lycurgus arose and
laid aside his weeds and his noble sacrificial robe, and he shore
his hair, and put them both together into the fire as a mark of
sorrow and dejection, and this is what he said: "0 Jove," said
he, " perfidious hast thou been to me in letting my son be slain,
for I was a noble sacrificing priest to thee even till to-day."
Then arose the roar and hiss of the exceeding great red flame

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da losowd isiw tenid sin. Rob' adbul tra in tan sin -j ba fograch
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-| or ac snigi dar etaigib rigda roailli T fin i fuil' ac fiuchud

2250 i tulcAomaib ouanda comdaingne.
