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The Suppliants (947-971)

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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,

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