GHOST OF DARIUS
If we make not war upon the country of the Greeks; no, not even if the Median force be the larger: for to them the earth herself is an ally.
CHORUS
How sayest thou this? and in what way acts it as an ally?
GHOST OF DARIUS
Inasmuch as it slays by famine those that are over-numerous.
CHORUS
Well, but we will furnish forth an expedition well equipped and select.
GHOST OF DARIUS
Aye, but not even shall the army that now remains in the regions of Hellas attain to a safe return.
CHORUS
How sayest thou: What! does not the whole armament of the barbarians cross the frith of Helle from Europe?
GHOST OF DARIUS
Persians. Aeschylus. Theodore Alois Buckley (Translator). London. 1849.
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