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Suppliant Maidens (792-808)

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Ah that somewhere in the upper air I might find a seat against which the dank clouds turn into snow, or some bare, inaccessible crag,
beyond sight, brooding in solitude, beetling, vulture-haunted, to bear witness to my plunge into the depths before I am ever forced into a marriage that would pierce my heart!
800
Chorus
Thereafter I refuse not to become a booty for dogs and a banquet for the local birds; for death is freedom from misery-loving evils. Come death, death be my doom,
before the marriage-bed! How can I yet find some means of escape to deliver me from marriage?
808
Chorus
Shriek aloud, with a cry that reaches heaven, strains of supplication to the gods;

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