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Xerxes
They are a war-like people. I have lived to behold a calamity I never expected. Chorus
Are you speaking of the routed multitude which manned your ships? Xerxes
[1030] And I rent my robe at the disastrous event. Chorus
Alas, alas! Xerxes
No, far worse than alas. Chorus
Yes, for twofold and threefold— Xerxes
Pain to us, but exultation to our enemies Chorus
[1035] Yes, and our strength has been maimed. Xerxes
I am stripped of my escort. Chorus
By the disasters of your comrades upon the sea.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1. Persians. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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