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Chorus
Alas, alas! My mind is trembling with fear, [1285] trembling; and through my flesh goes a throb of pity, of pity for the hapless mother. Which of her two sons will stain the other with blood— [1290] ah, for the suffering! O Zeus, O earth, alas!—a brother's throat, a brother's life, through his shield, through his blood? Ah me! ah me! which of them [1295] will I lament as dead?
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 2. The Phoenissae, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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