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Second Semi-Chorus
Once more do we invoke the gods we called upon before. First Semi-Chorus
Yes, in our fear this is our chiefest trust. Second Semi-Chorus
O Zeus, father to the child the heifer-mother bore in days long past, that daughter of Inachus! First Semi-Chorus
[630] O be gracious, I pray, and champion this city! Second Semi-Chorus
It is your own darling, your own settler in the city of Argos that I am striving from outrage to rescue for the funeral pyre.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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