A translation by Keyne Cheshire of the second stasimon of Sophocles' Trachiniae, this song calls for the swift return of the victorious Hercules (Heracles in the original Greek) from battle to his wife Deanna Kilman (Deianira), and closes with the hope that the magical unguent Deanna applied to her husband's cloak will prove effective and prevent his ever loving another woman.
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