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1. He suffers much, who for a dowry has
His body sold,——
as Euripides says; for he gets but small matters by it, and those very
uncertain. But to him who passes not through much ashes, but through
a certain regal pile of fire, being perpetually short breathed, full
of fear, and bathed in sweat as if he had crossed the seas to and fro,
she gives at last a certain Tantalian wealth, which he cannot enjoy by
reason of the continual turmoil that encumbers him. For that Sicyonian
horse-courser was well advised, who presented the king of the Achaeans
with a swift-footed mare,