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Lacerated by the swirling waters （alas!） they are gnawed （alas!） by the voiceless children of the undefiled sea （alas!）. The home, bereaved of his presence, laments its head; [580] and parents, bereft of their children, in their old age bewail their heaven- sent woes （alas!）, now that they learn the full measure of their afflictions.
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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