Look, how the spurted stain combines with time To blur the many dyes that once adorned Its pattern...
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470 BC THE PERSIANS by Aeschylus translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ATOSSA, wid...
Speak, royal lady, what thy will, assured We want no second bidding, where our power In word or de...
Unhappy in his fate. Syennesis, Cilicia's warlike chief, who dared to front The foremost dangers, ...
Unbound the middle current, down they sunk Each over other; happiest he who found The speediest de...
ATOSSA Unhappy fortune, what a tide of ills Bursts o'er me! Chief this foul disgrace, which shows ...
And conquest on her banners waits no more. XERXES At such a fall, such troops of heroes lost, How...
460 BC THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Morshead CHARACTERS IN THE PLA...
And helpful to our army thus beset, That ye before the statues of our gods Should fling yourselves...
Or sound of charming song shall make me well? Hide naught of ill But-if indeed thou knowest-prophe...
Thou dost cryout, fetching again deep groans: What wilt thou do when thou hast heard in full The e...
Disclosed to me; but how and in what wise Were long to tell, nor would it profit thee. IO Again t...
Whereby Zeus shall persuade me to unlock My lips until these shackles be cast loose. Therefore let...
450 BC THE CHOEPHORI by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Moreshead CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ORESTES...
Me and mine own Orestes, Father, speak- How shall thy children rule thine halls again? Homeless we...