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Ariane, my sister, wounded by what love,
You died on the shores where you were abandoned.

— Jean Racine Phèdre (1677)

Ariane, ma sœur, de quel amour blessée,
Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée.

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Phèdre, act I, scene III.

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