Numberless bents
Distinguish men.
If the poet is right,
an Act of distinction
is not what we're of-
fered, in this return
to the Senate for yet
another misfire of an
oft-anticipated clim-
ax. Sicily is burning
and apprehension, her
abandoned sound, muf-
fles dull similitude.
5th Century BC
Robert Fagles
translation
Complete Poems
34
Yale University Press, 1961©
iii Alex Berlov
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