According to the Second Brother, it's virtually impossible for a single, helpless maiden to pass uninjured in this wild, surrounding waste.

弟弟认为，一个孤独无助的女孩想要，毫发无伤的穿过这野外的荒原是根本不可能的。

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The chaste poet was unable to pass uninjured in that wild surrounding waste. This violence was so terrible that not even his mother, the muse Calliope, could save him.

这端正老实的诗人无法在这野蛮的进攻中,全身而退，巴克坎忒斯的暴行是如此可怕,就连俄耳甫斯的母亲，身为缪斯之一的克莱俄帕也救不了他。

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