Chorus
Anon wherever Hellenes gather, was heard the voice of lamentation, mothers weeping o’er their children’s fate,
as they left their homes to mate with strangers. Ah! thou art not the only one, nor thy dear ones either, on whom the cloud of grief hath fallen. Hellas had to bear the visitation, and thence the scourge crossed to Phrygia’s
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fruitful fields, raining the bloody drops the; death-god loves.
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Andromache. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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