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But the keen and bitter sword is near the breast and drives home its blow at the bidding of Justice. [640] For truly the injustice of him who has unjustly transgressed the sovereign majesty of Zeus lies on the ground trampled under foot.1 [645]
1 The translation is based on the reading παρεκβάντος （Stanley）; but this and all other alterations do not remove the difficulties of the original.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Libation Bearers. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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