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PREFACE.
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And will Æschylus forgive, among my many other offences against him, the grave offence of profaning his Prometheus, by attaching to it some miscellaneous poems by its translator? Will he not rather retort upon me, his chorus's strongly expressed disapprobation of unequal unions? And how can I defend myself? ἀπόλεμος ὄδε γ᾽ ὁ πόλεμος.