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Chorus
Not as piety enjoins, but from necessity I have come to the fire-crowned altars of the gods, falling on my knees with my demand, [65] for my cause is just, and it is in your power, blessed as you are in your children, to remove from me my woe; so in my sore distress I beseech you place in my unhappy hands my son's [70] dead body, that I may throw my arms about the hapless limbs of my child.
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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