Adrastus
Mothers, raise the wail for the dead departed;
cry in answer when ye hear my note of woe.
800
Chorus
My sons, my sons! O bitter words for loving mothers to address to you! To thee, my lifeless child, I call.
Adrastus
Woe! woe!
805
Chorus
Ah me, my sufferings!
Adrastus
Alas!
Chorus
Adrastus
We have endured, alas!—
Chorus
Sorrows most grievous.
Adrastus
O citizens of
Argos
! do ye not behold my fate?
Chorus
They see thee, and me the hapless mother,
reft of her children.
810
The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. E. P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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