Chorus
Chorus
May he reach the goal! yea, and triumph o’er my sorrows,
rescuing the gory corpse, the mother’s idol, and making the land of Inachus his friend by helping her.
370
Chorus
For pious toil is a fair ornament to cities, and carries with it a grace that never wastes away.
What will the city decide, I wonder? Will it conclude a friendly truce with me, and shall we obtain burial for our sons?
375
Chorus
Help, O help, city of Pallas, the mother’s cause, that so they may not pollute the laws of all mankind. Thou, I know, dost reverence right, and to injustice dealest out
defeat, a protection at all times to the afflicted.
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The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. E. P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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