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The Suppliants (939-1030)

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Thy thralls forthwith must undertake this toil.
Theseus
Myself will look to those others; let the biers advance.
Adrastus
Approach your sons, unhappy mothers.
Theseus
This thy proposal, Adrastus, is anything but good.
Adrastus
Must not the mothers touch their sons?
Theseus
It would kill them to see how they are altered.
Adrastus
Tis bitter, truly, to see the dead even[*] at the moment of death.
Theseus
Why then wilt thou add fresh grief to them?
Adrastus
Thou art right. Ye[*] needs must patiently abide, for the words of Theseus are good. But when we have committed them unto the flames, ye shall collect their bones. O wretched sons of men!
Why do ye get you weapons and bring slaughter on one another? Cease therefrom, give oer your toiling, and in mutual peace keep safe your cities. Short is the span of life, so twere best to run its course as lightly as we may, from trouble free.
955
Chorus
No more a happy mother I, with children blest; no more I share, among Argive women, who have sons, their happy lot; nor any more will Artemis in the hour of travail kindly greet these childless mothers.
Most dreary is my life, and like some wandering cloud I drift before the howling blast.
963
Chorus
The seven noblest sons in Argos once we had,
we seven hapless mothers; but now my sons are dead, I have no child, and on me steals old age in piteous wise,
nor mongst the dead nor mongst the living do I count[*] myself,
having as it were a lot apart from these.
971
Chorus
Tears alone are left me; in my house sad memories of my son are stored; mournful tresses shorn from his head, chaplets that he wore, libations for the dead departed,
and songs, but not such as golden-haired Apollo welcometh; and when I wake to weep, my tears will ever drench the folds of my robe upon my bosom.
980
Chorus
Ah! there I see the sepulchre ready een now for Capaneus, his consecrated tomb, and the votive offerings Theseus gives unto the dead outside the shrine, and nigh yon lightning-smitten chief
I see his noble bride, Evadne, daughter of King Iphis. Wherefore stands she on the towering rock, which oertops this temple, advancing along yon path?
990
Evadne
What light, what radiancy did the sun-gods car dart forth, and the moon athwart the firmament, while round her in the gloom swift stars[*] careered,
in the day that the city of Argos raised the stately chant of joy at my wedding, in honour of my marriage with mail-clad Capaneus?
Now from my home in frantic haste with frenzied mind I rush to join thee, seeking to share with thee the fires bright flame and the self-same tomb, to rid me of my weary
life in Hades halls, and of the pains of existence; yea, for tis the sweetest end to share the death of those we love, if only fate will sanction it.
1009
Chorus
Behold yon pyre, which thou art overlooking, nigh thereto,
set apart for Zeus! There is thy husbands body, vanquished by the blazing bolt.
1012
Evadne
Lifes goal I now behold from my station here; may fortune aid me in my headlong leap from this rock
in honours cause, down into the fire below, to mix my ashes
in the ruddy blaze
with my husbands, to lay me side by side with him, there in the couch of Persephone; for neer will I, to save my life, prove untrue to thee where thou liest in thy grave.
Away with life and marriage too! Oh![*] may my children live to see the dawn of a fairer, happier wedding-day in Argos! May loyalty inspire the husbands heart,
his nature fusing with his wifes!

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