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And what a number of cities he captured!—
without crossing the stream of Halys or even stirring from his own hearth: such as the Acheloan[*]cities on the Strymonian sea which is located beside
the Thracian settlements.
871
Chorus
And those outside the lake, the cities on the mainland, surrounded with a rampart, obeyed him as their king;
those, too, that boast to be on both sides of the broad Hellespont and Propontis, deeply-recessed, and the outlet of Pontus.
879
Chorus
The sea-washed islands, also, off the projecting arm
of the sea, lying close to this land of ours, such as Lesbos, and olive-planted Samos, Chios and Paros, Naxos, Mykonos,
and Andros which lies adjacent to Tenos.
888
Chorus
And he held under his sway the sea-girt islands midway between the continents,
Lemnos, and the settlement of Icarus, and Rhodes, and Cnidos, and the Cyprian cities Paphos, Soli, and Salamis,
whose mother-city is now the cause of our lament.
898
Chorus
And the rich and populous cities of the Hellenes in the Ionian heritage
he controlled by his own will; and at his command he had an unwearied strength of men-at-arms and of allies from every nation. But now,
worsted completely in war through disasters on the sea, we endure this change of fortune no doubt from the hand of god.
909
Enter Xerxes in tattered robes, and attended by a scanty retinue
Xerxes
Alas, wretched am I who have met this cruel doom
which did not give the faintest sign of its coming! In what savage mood has Fortune trampled upon the Persian race? What misery is yet in store for me, unhappy wretch? The strength of my limbs is loosened as I look upon this aged group of citizens.
Ah, Zeus,I wish that the doom of death had buried me, too, together with the men who have been laid low!
Chorus
Alas, my king, for our noble army, for the high honor of Persia’s rule,
and for the splendor of the men now cut off by Fate! The land bewails her native youth, slaughtered for Xerxes, who has crowded Hades with Persian slain.
Many warriors, masters of the bow, our country’s pride, a great multitude of men, have perished. Alas, alas, for our trusty defence! The land of Asia, the leading power of the earth,
has piteously, yes piteously, been bowed to her knees.
932
Xerxes
Behold me, alas, a fitting subject for lamentation, born a source of ruin to my race and fatherland.
Chorus
As a greeting for your return home I will lift up an ill-omened cry of woe, the voice, versed in lamentation, of a Mariandynian mourner,
a wail attended by many a tear.
941
Xerxes
Utter a strain of lamentation, plaintive and discordant. For Fortune has now veered and turned against me.
Chorus
I will indeed utter the song of lamentation
in commemoration of your sufferings and of our strongly-manned ships, buffeted by waves; the plaintive strain of our land which mourns its sons. And I will cry aloud in lamentation, shedding many a tear.
950
Xerxes
Yes, for the Ionian naval force, turning the tide of battle, swept them away, the Ionian host, ravaging the dark sea and the shore of doom.
Chorus
Woe! woe! cry aloud, learn about the whole disaster. Where is the rest of the multitude of your comrades? Where are those who stood by your side, such as Pharandaces, Susas, Pelagon, Dotamas, and
Agdabatas, Psammis, and Susiscanes of Agbatana?

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