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The Suppliants (767-780)

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An awful burden[*] this, involving some disgrace.
Messenger
Why, what disgrace to men are their fellows sorrows?
Adrastus
Ah me! how much rather had I died with them!
Messenger
Tis vain to weep and move to tears these women.
Adrastus
Methinks tis they who give the lesson. Enough[*] of that! My hands I lift at meeting of the dead, and pour forth a tearful dirge to Hades, calling on my friends,
whose loss I mourn in wretched solitude; for this one thing, when once tis spent, man cannot recover, the breath of life, though he knoweth ways to get his wealth again.
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Chorus
Joy is here and sorrow too,—
for the state fair fame, and for our captains double meed of honour. Bitter for me it is to see the limbs of my dead sons, and yet a welcome sight withal, because I shall behold the unexpected day

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