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| 27 | 31 | I strained View more quotes about forward">forward, trying to kiss at his legs, but the chain on my wrists, pulling against the back of the post, held me back. |
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| 27 | 28 | When I had knelt before a post, my hands behind me, chained back about the post, a helmet beside me, set in the sand, like a vessel, into which ostraka would be placed, men had come to look upon me. |
| 27 | 29 | They had come to see if they thought it worth their while, in the spending of their evening, to wait about for a time, to see me dance, and then, perhaps, if they were pleased, to drop an ostrakon into the helmet. |
| 27 | 30 | Among them came he whom I most feared. |
| 27 | 31 | I strained forward, trying to kiss at his legs, but the chain on my wrists, pulling against the back of the post, held me back. |
| 27 | 32 | I then realized that he had selected the place where he had stood with care. |
| 27 | 33 | He had judged the distance with cruel exactness. |
| 27 | 34 | It was such that I would try to reach him, desperately, to kiss him, to placate him. |