Aeschylus' PERSIANS Complete

Translated by Robert Potter.

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Xerxes: At such a fall, such troops of heroes lost,
How can my soul but sink in deep despair!
Cease thy sad strain.

Chorus: Is all thy glory lost?

Xerxes: Seest thou these poor remains of my rent robes?

Chorus: I see, I see.

Xerxes: And this ill-furnish'd quiver?

Chorus: Wherefore preserved?

Xerxes: To store my treasured arrows.

Chorus: Few, very few.

Xerxes: And few my friendly aids.

Chorus: I thought these Grecians shrunk appall'd at arms.

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