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[120] Fearful I am too that as bands of women cry aloud “woe,” the Cissian stronghold will raise a resounding shout responsive to the beating of breasts, [125] and that there will be a tearing of fine linen robes.
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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