Chorus
’Tis a fearful thing, that a city
prosperous as Mycenae is, one famed for martial prowess, should harbour wrath against my land; still, my countrymen, it were a shameful thing in us to yield up suppliant strangers
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at the bidding of Argos. Zeus is on my side, I am not afraid; Zeus hath a favour unto me, as is my due; never by me
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shall gods be thought weaker than mortal men.
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Heracleidae. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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