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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Philoetius' Prayer
Homer, Odyssey 20.201-203 (tr. S.H. Butcher and A. Lang):
Father Zeus, none other god is more baneful than thou; thou hast no compassion on men, that are of thine own begetting, but makest them to have fellowship with evil and with bitter pains.