Aeschylus' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: Let him go forward, thy command obeying.
But me how biddest, how assurest thou?

The King of Argos: Leave there the new-plucked boughs, thy sorrow's sign.

Leader: Thus beckoned forth, at thy behest I leave them.

The King of Argos: Now to this level precinct turn thyself.

Leader: Unconsecrate it is, and cannot shield me.

The King of Argos: We will not yield thee to those falcons' greed.

Leader: What help? more fierce they are than serpents fell.

The King of Argos: We spake thee fair-speak thou them fair in turn.

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