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EPIGRAM ON DION OF SYRACUSE by PLATO

First Line: FOR PRIAM'S QUEEN AND DAUGHTERS AT THEIR BIRTH
Last Line: THEE, -- LOVE FOR WHOM ONCE TOOK MY WITS AWAY.

FOR Priam's queen and daughters at their birth
The fates weaved tears into the web of life;
But for thee, Dion, in thy hour of mirth,
When triumph crowned thy honourable strife,
Thy gathering hopes were poured upon the sand:
Thee, still thy countrymen revere, and lay
In the broad precincts of thy native land,
Thee, -- love for whom once took my wits away.



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