1st Half-Chorus
Unhappy mothers of those hapless chiefs! How wildly in my heart pale fear stirs up alarm!
2nd Half-Chorus
What is this new cry thou utterest?
600
1st Half-Chorus
I fear the issue of the strife, whereto the hosts of Pallas march.
2nd Half-Chorus
Dost speak of issues of the sword, or interchange of words?
1st Half-Chorus
That last were gain indeed; but if the carnage of battle, fighting, and
the noise of beaten breasts again be heard in the land, what, alas! will be said of me, who am the cause thereof?
605
The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. E. P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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