Euripides' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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First Semi-Chorus: Would I could reach yon plains with turrets crowned,
leaving Callichorus, fountain of the goddess!

Second Semi-Chorus: O that some god would give me wings to fly to
the city of rivers twain!

First Semi-Chorus: So might'st thou see and know the fortunes of thy
friends.

Second Semi-Chorus: What fate, what issue there awaits the valiant
monarch of this land?

First Semi-Chorus: Once more do we invoke the gods we called upon
before; yea, in our fear this is our first and chiefest trust.

Second Semi-Chorus: O Zeus, father to the child the heifer-mother
bore in days long past, that daughter of Inachus!

First Semi-Chorus: O be gracious, I pray, and champion this city!

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