Aeschylus' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Alack, alack! the ravisher-
He leaps from boat to beach, he draweth near!
Away, thou plunderer accurst!
Death seize thee first,
Or e'er thou touch me-off! God, hear our cry,
Our maiden agony!
Ah, ah, the touch, the prelude of my shame.
Alas, my maiden fame!
O sister, sister, sister, to the altar cling,
For he that seizeth me,
Grim is his wrath and stern, by land as on the sea.
Guard us, O king!
The Herald of Aegyptus enters with attendants. The lines in the following scene between the Herald and the Chorus are sung and are accompanied by a frenzied symbolic dance.


Herald of Aegyptus: Hence to my barge-step swiftly, tarry not.

Chorus: Alack, he rends-he rends my hair! O wound on wound!
Help! my lopped head will fall, my blood gush o'er the ground!

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