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Suppliant Maidens (465-470)

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To hang ourselves from the statues of these gods.
King
I detect a threat that is a lash upon my heart.
Chorus
You have grasped my intention, for I have cleared your vision.
King
And on many sides there are difficulties hard to wrestle with; for, like a flood, a multitude of ills bursts on me.
It is a sea of ruin, fathomless and impassable, which I am launched upon, and nowhere is there a haven from distress. For should I not pay the debt due to you, the pollution you name is beyond all range of speech; yet if

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