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Not by division did the Argives vote,
But so as to make young mine aged heart.
For in full mote, with raised right-hands the air
Bristled, while this decree they ratified,
That we in Argive land might settle, free,
Not subject to arrest, inviolate;
That no one, native here or foreigner,
Should seize us;-but, should violence be used,
And any of these burghers fail to aid,
An outlaw should he be, to exile doomed.
610
Thus in our favour spake Pelasgia's king,
Persuasive, warning lest the mighty wrath
Of Zeus, the suppliant's god, in future time,
The city should weigh down, and two-fold wrong,
To us as strangers and as citizens,
Upon the state two-fold pollution bring,
Food of disaster irremediable.
Hearing such things the Argives, by their hands,
Confirmed, ere herald summoned, these decrees.
The orator's persuasive winding speech
Heard the Pelasgi, and Zeus wrought the end.
Not by division did the Argives vote,
But so as to make young mine aged heart.
For in full mote, with raised right-hands the air
Bristled, while this decree they ratified,
That we in Argive land might settle, free,
Not subject to arrest, inviolate;
That no one, native here or foreigner,
Should seize us;-but, should violence be used,
And any of these burghers fail to aid,
An outlaw should he be, to exile doomed.
610
Thus in our favour spake Pelasgia's king,
Persuasive, warning lest the mighty wrath
Of Zeus, the suppliant's god, in future time,
The city should weigh down, and two-fold wrong,
To us as strangers and as citizens,
Upon the state two-fold pollution bring,
Food of disaster irremediable.
Hearing such things the Argives, by their hands,
Confirmed, ere herald summoned, these decrees.
The orator's persuasive winding speech
Heard the Pelasgi, and Zeus wrought the end.
Supplices. Aeschylus. Anna Swanwick (Translator). London. 1886.
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