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The Suppliants (795-835)

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of the fallen youths. Woe is me! would I could join these children in their death and descend to Hades with them!
798
Adrastus
Mothers, raise the wail for the dead departed;
cry in answer when ye hear my note of woe.
Chorus
My sons, my sons! O bitter words for loving mothers to address to you! To thee, my lifeless child, I call.
Adrastus
Woe! woe!
Chorus
Ah me, my sufferings!
Adrastus
Alas!
Chorus
⋯[*]
Adrastus
We have endured, alas!—
Chorus
Sorrows most grievous.
Adrastus
O citizens of Argos! do ye not behold my fate?
Chorus
They see thee, and me the hapless mother,
reft of her children.
811
Adrastus
Bring near the blood-boltered corpses of those hapless chiefs, foully slain by foes unworthy, with whom lay the decision of the contest.
Chorus
Let me embrace and hold my children to my bosom in my enfolding arms.
Adrastus
There, there! thou hast—
Chorus
Sorrows heavy enough to bear.
Adrastus
Ah me!
Chorus
Thy groans mingle with those of their parents.[*]
Adrastus
Hear me.
Chorus
O’er both of us thou dost lament.
Adrastus
Would God the Theban ranks had laid me dead in the dust!
Chorus
Oh that I had ne’er been wedded to a husband!
824
Adrastus
Behold this sea of troubles![*]
Ah! hapless mothers.
Chorus
Our nails have ploughed our cheeks in furrows, and o’er our heads have we strewn ashes.
Adrastus
Ah me! ah me! Oh that earth’s floor would swallow me,
or the whirlwind snatch me away, or Zeus’s flaming bolt descend upon my head!
Chorus
Bitter the marriages thou didst witness, bitter the oracle of Phoebus!
The curse of Oedipus, fraught with sorrow, after desolating[*] his house, is come on thee.

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