Aeschylus' PERSIANS Complete

Translated by Robert Potter.

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Leader of the Chorus: Why this? To what fair end are these thy words
Directed? Sovereign lord, instruct thy Persians
How, mid this ruin, best to guide their state.

Ghost of Darius: No more 'gainst Greece lead your embattled hosts;
Not though your deep'ning phalanx spreads the field
Outnumb'ring theirs: their very earth fights for them.

Leader: What may thy words import? How fight for them?

Ghost of Darius: With famine it destroys your cumbrous train.

Leader: Choice levies, prompt for action, will we send,

Ghost of Darius: Those, in the fields of Greece that now remain,
Shall not revisit safe the Persian shore.

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