Aeschylus' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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strophe 1

I shudder, I shiver, I perish with fear:
Overseas though I fled,
Yet nought it avails; my pursuers are near!

Danaus: Children, take heart; they who decreed to aid
Thy cause will arm for battle, well I ween.

Chorus: But desperate is Aegyptus' ravening race,
With fight unsated; thou too know'st it well.

antistrophe 1

In their wrath they o'ertake us; the prow is deep-dark
In the which they have sped,
And dark is the bench and the crew of the bark!

Danaus: Yea but a crew as stout they here shall find,
And arms well steeled beneath a noon-day sun.

Chorus: Ah yet, O father, leave us not forlorn!
Alone, a maid is nought, a strengthless arm.

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