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    Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)

    Chorus

    Editions and translations: Greek (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) | English (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D.)
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    Danaus

    May he indeed behold you, and with a gracious eye.

    Chorus

    I would like even now to be seated by your side.

    Danaus

    Then do not delay, but put your purpose into action.

    Chorus

    [210] O Zeus, have pity upon our troubles lest we are ruined.

    Danaus

    If he wishes it so, all will end well.

    Chorus

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    Danaus

    Invoke now also that bird of Zeus

    Chorus

    We invoke the saving beams of the sun.

    Danaus

    Pure Apollo, too, who, though a god, was exiled once from heaven.

    Chorus

    [215] Knowing our lot, he may well have pity on mortals.

    Danaus

    May he have pity indeed, and stand by ready to defend.

    Chorus

    Whom, further, of these divinities must I invoke?

    Danaus

    I behold a trident here, the token of its god.

    Chorus

    Well did he send us here and well may he receive us in this land.

    Danaus

    [220] Here, too, is Hermes, according to the Hellenic custom.

    Chorus

    May he then announce good tidings to the free!

    Danaus

    Honor to the mutual altar of all these protecting powers; and seat yourselves on holy ground like a flock of doves in dread of hawks of the same feathered tribe-- [225] kindred, yet foes, who would defile their race. If bird prey on bird, how can it be pure? And how can man be pure who would seize from an unwilling father an unwilling bride? For such an act, not even in Hades, after death, shall he escape arraignment for outrage. [230] There also among the dead, so men tell, another Zeus holds a last judgment upon misdeeds. Take heed and reply in this manner, that victory may attend your cause.


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    Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
    347 [a) Singularform.]

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    Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Suppliant Women. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
    OCLC: 13109528
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