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Unread 08-09-2017, 11:26 PM
Mark Blaeuer Mark Blaeuer is offline
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1) Wordsworth's "The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820" runs for 84 lines. I'm not sure whether that qualifies as tidy.

2) Willis Barnstone's translation of a relevant Archilochus fragment is on page 29 of his Greek Lyric Poetry (second printing, 1975).
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