Aeschylus' PERSIANS Complete

Translated by Robert Potter.

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Messenger: Naught did their bows avail, but all the troops
In the first conflict of the ships were lost.

Chorus:
chanting
Raise the funereal cry, with dismal notes
Wailing the wretched Persians. Oh, how ill
They plann'd their measures, all their army perish'd!

Messenger: O Salamis, how hateful is thy name!
And groans burst from me when I think of Athens.

Chorus:
chanting
How dreadful to her foes! Call to remembrance
How many Persian dames, wedded in vain,
Hath Athens of their noble husbands widow'd?

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