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  • But Theseus, who surpassed all the sons of Erechtheus, an unseen bond kept beneath the land of Taenarus, for he had followed that path with Peirithous; assuredly both would have lightened for all the fulfilment of their toil.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Myself will now to the land of Erechtheus, to dwell with

    Medea 2008

  • Or doth some rival in thy house beguile thy lord, the captain of Erechtheus 'sons, that hero nobly born, to secret amours hid from thee?

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Myself will now to the land of Erechtheus, to dwell with

    Medea 2008

  • Farewell, city and land of Erechtheus; farewell, Troezen, most joyous home wherein to pass the spring of life;

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Or doth some rival in thy house beguile thy lord, the captain of Erechtheus 'sons, that hero nobly born, to secret amours hid from thee?

    Hippolytus 2008

  • And more; thou wouldst have fired Erechtheus 'house.

    Ion 2008

  • Tinged with the Gorgon's venom'd gore: That seat, which mid Erechtheus 'royal heirs

    Ion 2008

  • Farewell, city and land of Erechtheus; farewell, Troezen, most joyous home wherein to pass the spring of life;

    Hippolytus 2008

  • Sons of Erechtheus, heroes happy from of yore, children of the blessed gods, fed on wisdom's glorious food in a holy land ne'er pillaged by its foes, ye who move with sprightly step through a climate ever bright and clear, where, as legend tells, the Muses nine, Pieria's holy maids, were brought to birth by Harmonia with the golden hair.

    Medea 2008

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