Aeschylus' PERSIANS Complete

Translated by Robert Potter.

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Atossa: Ah, what a boundless sea of wo hath burst
On Persia, and the whole barbaric race!

Messenger: These are not half, not half our ills; on these
Came an assemblage of calamities,
That sunk us with a double weight of wo.

Atossa: What fortune can be more unfriendly to us
Than this? Say on, what dread calamity
Sunk Persia's host with greater weight of wo.

Messenger: Whoe'er of Persia's warriors glow'd in prime
Of vig'rous youth, or felt their generous souls
Expand with courage, or for noble birth
Shone with distinguish'd lustre, or excell'd
In firm and duteous loyalty, all these
Are fall'n, ignobly, miserably fall'n.

Atossa: Alas, their ruthless fate, unhappy friends!
But in what manner, tell me, did they perish?

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