Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Ikiad 1 kingly vow revisited
"Hence on thy life, and fly these hostile plains,
Nor ask, presumptuous, what the king detains
Hence, with thy laurel crown, and golden rod,
Nor trust too far those ensigns of thy god.
[pg 003]
Mine is thy daughter, priest, and shall remain;
And prayers, and tears, and bribes, shall plead in vain;
Till time shall rifle every youthful grace,
And age dismiss her from my cold embrace,
In daily labours of the loom employ'd,
Or doom'd to deck the bed she once enjoy'd
Hence then; to Argos shall the maid retire,
Far from her native soil and weeping sire."
***If one notices using divine revcompense the same verse as we last looked at has been divinely altered to another version. yes its teh same source from the same paragraph
Here the vow is done on ones lifeand the imperative is not to presume what the authorite maintains.
Both with the authority of the crown and golden rod
The vow is sustained with leery mention of what the divine ensigns might be proportion
The daughter belongs to me is said to the cleric and will remain as such
No tears, bribes or prayers, in other words, nothing you do will impress me to change my mind, by any length of time such deeds will not move me, even if sustained till we are old and wrinkly. She will remain mine till she dies of old age and is released from my cold authority which protects her for her husband’s warm embrace,
It will be so at all times, in daily labors and in private matters of the heart and where and with whom she lay. Doomed to lay where she has enjoyed.
Thus she will enjoy her life.
To Argos she will go and live far from those who weep for her in her old home country. These plains have become hostile to her and must take flight from such circumstances and go to argo which is safe and not hostile.
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