470 BC THE PERSIANS by Aeschylus translated by Robert Potter CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY ATOSSA, wid...
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460 BC THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES by Aeschylus translated by E.D.A. Morshead CHARACTERS IN THE PLA...
Speak, royal lady, what thy will, assured We want no second bidding, where our power In word or de...
And helpful to our army thus beset, That ye before the statues of our gods Should fling yourselves...
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...
ATTENDANT O woe, O woe, my lord is done to death! Woe, woe, and woe again, Aegisthus gone! Hasten...
ATOSSA Unhappy fortune, what a tide of ills Bursts o'er me! Chief this foul disgrace, which shows ...
Look, how the spurted stain combines with time To blur the many dyes that once adorned Its pattern...
Me and mine own Orestes, Father, speak- How shall thy children rule thine halls again? Homeless we...
Thro' all this peril; clear the voice rang out With many warnings, sternly threatening To my hot h...
Or sound of charming song shall make me well? Hide naught of ill But-if indeed thou knowest-prophe...
Stretched rendingly forth, to tatter and tear, My clenched hands wander, here and there, From head...
Thou dost cryout, fetching again deep groans: What wilt thou do when thou hast heard in full The e...
And what if none of those that tend the gates Shall welcome us with gladness, since the house With...