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The Suppliants (584b-634)

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Tis time for all to start,
each stout footman, and whoso mounts the car; tis time the bit, dripping with foam, should urge the charger on toward the land of Cadmus. For I will march in person to the seven gates thereof
with the sharp sword in my hand, and be myself my herald. But thee, Adrastus, I bid stay, nor blend with mine thy fortunes, for I will take my own good star to lead
my host, a chieftain famed in famous deeds of arms. One thing alone I need, the favour of all gods that reverence right, for the presence of these things
insures victory. For their valour availeth men naught, unless they have the gods goodwill. [Exit Theseus.
598
The following lines between the Semi-Choruses are chanted responsively.
1st Half-Chorus
Unhappy mothers of those hapless chiefs! How wildly in my heart pale fear stirs up alarm!
2nd Half-Chorus
What is this new cry thou utterest?
1st Half-Chorus
I fear the issue of the strife, whereto the hosts of Pallas march.
2nd Half-Chorus
Dost speak of issues of the sword, or interchange of words?
1st Half-Chorus
That last were gain indeed; but if the carnage of battle, fighting, and
the noise of beaten breasts again be heard in the land, what, alas! will be said of me, who am the cause thereof?
608
2nd Half-Chorus
Yet may fate again bring low the brilliant victor; tis this brave thought that twines about my heart.
1st Half-Chorus
Thou speakst of the gods as if they were just.
2nd Half-Chorus
For who but they allot whateer betides?
1st Half-Chorus
I see many a contradiction in their dealings with men.
2nd Half-Chorus
The former fear hath warped thy judgment. Vengeance calls vengeance forth; slaughter calls for slaughter,
but the gods give respite from affliction, holding in their own hands each things allotted end.
618
1st Half-Chorus
Would I could reach yon plains with turrets crowned, leaving Callichorus, fountain of the goddess!
2nd Half-Chorus
O that some god would give me wings to fly to the city of rivers twain!
1st Half-Chorus
So mightst thou see and know the fortunes of thy friends.
2nd Half-Chorus
What fate, what issue there awaits the valiant
monarch of this land?
626
1st Half-Chorus
Once more do we invoke the gods we called upon before; yea, in our fear this is our first and chiefest trust.
2nd Half-Chorus
O Zeus, father to the child the heifer-mother bore in days long past, that daughter of Inachus!
1st Half-Chorus
O be gracious, I pray, and champion this city!
2nd Half-Chorus
Tis thy own darling, thy own settler in the city of Argos that I[*] am striving to rescue for the funeral pyre from outrageous insult.
634
Messenger
Ladies, I bring you tidings of great joy, myself escapedfor I was taken prisoner in the battle

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