Aeschylus' SUPPLIANTS Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: Not as our lords, but as unloved, we chide them.

The King of Argos: 'Tis from such wedlock that advancement comes,

Leader: How easy is it, from the weak to turn!

The King of Argos: How then toward you can I be conscience-clear?

Leader: Deny us, though Aegyptus' race demand.

The King of Argos: A heavy task thou namest, a rash war.

Leader: But Justice champions them who strike for her.

The King of Argos: Yea, if their side was from the outset hers.

Leader: Revere the gods thus crowned, who steer the State.

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