anne illis obsessa negarem? accessi, saepe ante deos testata fidemque immeritasque manus; subeo (pro dira potestas!) exsangue imperium et maestam sine culmine Lemnon.
So beset, was I to refuse them? I agreed, but only after calling often on the gods and the truth and my innocence. I take on (ah dire authority!) a bloodless power, a Lemnos sad and headless.
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