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The Suppliants (370-390)

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rescuing the gory corpse, the mothers idol, and making the land of Inachus his friend by helping her.
373
Chorus
For pious toil is a fair ornament to cities, and carries with it a grace that never wastes away.
What will the city decide, I wonder? Will it conclude a friendly truce with me, and shall we obtain burial for our sons?
377
Chorus
Help, O help, city of Pallas, the mothers cause, that so they may not pollute the laws of all mankind. Thou, I know, dost reverence right, and to injustice dealest out
defeat, a protection at all times to the afflicted.
381
Theseus
(to a herald.) Forasmuch as with this thy art thou hast ever served the stat and me by carrying my proclamations far and wide, so now cross Asopus and the waters of Ismenus, and declare this message to the haughty king of the Cadmeans:
Theseus, thy neighbour, one who well may win the boon he craves, begs as a favour thy permission to bury the dead, winning to thyself thereby the love of all the Erechthidae. And if they will acquiesce, come back again, but if they hearken not, thy second message runneth thus,
they may expect my warrior host; for at the sacred fount of Callichorus my army camps in readiness and is being reviewed. Moreover, the city gladly of its own accord undertook this enterprise, when it perceived my wish.

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