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Theseus and his soldiers enter, carrying the corpses of the slain chieftains. Adrastus and the Chorus chant the lament responsively.
Adrastus
Mothers, raise the wail for the dead departed; [800] cry in answer when you hear my note of woe. Chorus
My sons! O bitter words for loving mothers to address to you! To you, my lifeless child, I call. Adrastus
[805] Woe! woe! Chorus
Ah me, my sufferings! Adrastus
Alas! Chorus
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We have endured— Chorus
Sorrows most grievous. Adrastus
O citizens of Argos! do you not behold my fate? Chorus
They see me also, the hapless mother, [810] bereft of her children.
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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