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would you please help me to translate this part of Dracontius's book. Thank you
would you please help me to translate this part of Dracontius's book. Thank you
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425a scoundrel deserving punishment, companion of Achilles mighty in arms. [Line referring to Thersites]
426 Tomyris, queen of the Scythians,slew the king [i.e. the elder Cyrus],
427 but without doing anything dishonorable she was avenger of her fellow-beings;
428 even if Medea carried out something contrary to the divine law, she was inflamed by the pain
426 Tomyris, queen of the Scythians,slew the king [i.e. the elder Cyrus],
427 but without doing anything dishonorable she was avenger of her fellow-beings;
428 even if Medea carried out something contrary to the divine law, she was inflamed by the pain
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429 of sweet love, when she burnt the royal palace,
430 bereft of her forgetful husband because of his mistress Glauce;
431 the Lemnian maidens took impious arms
432 and polluted the beds with conjugal blood,
433 but the fury of Venus was fierce and the misdeed abominable
434 which the Scythian young married women carried out in so great a crime
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429 of sweet love, when she burnt the royal palace,
430 bereft of her forgetful husband because of his mistress Glauce;
431 the Lemnian maidens took impious arms
432 and polluted the beds with conjugal blood,
433 but the fury of Venus was fierce and the misdeed abominable
434 which the Scythian young married women carried out in so great a crime
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NB. It's nothing but a rough interlinear translation., word-for-word.