62. Answers to exercises Copy

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The letter which you are reading comes from the stolen Briseis

scarcely well written in Greek by her foreign hand.

Tears made whatever blots you will see;

but nonetheless tears too have the weight of a voice.

If it is right for me to make a few complaints about you as my master and man,

I will make a few complaints about my master and man.

It is not your fault that I was quickly handed over to the king when he demanded it

– although this also is your fault;

for as soon as Eurybates and Talthybius called me,

I was given to Eurybates and Talthybius as a companion.

One of them casting his eyes at the face of the other,

they were silently asking where our love was.

But I shed tears without end and I tore my hair

– unhappy, I seemed to myself to be being captured again!

Often I wanted to trick my guard and return,

but there was an enemy who would seize the timid me.

If I had set out, I feared I would be captured by night,

to go as a gift to some daughter-in-law or other of Priam.