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Χορός

τί οὖν, ἄναξ Δαρεῖε, ποῖ καταστρέφεις
λόγων τελευτήν; πῶς ἂν ἐκ τούτων ἔτι
πράσσοιμεν ὡς ἄριστα Περσικὸς λεώς;

Δαρεῖος

790εἰ μὴ στρατεύοισθ᾽ ἐς τὸν Ἑλλήνων τόπον,
μηδ᾽ εἰ στράτευμα πλεῖον τὸ Μηδικόν.
αὐτὴ γὰρ ἡ γῆ ξύμμαχος κείνοις πέλει.

Χορός

πῶς τοῦτ᾽ ἔλεξας, τίνι τρόπῳ δὲ συμμαχεῖ;

Δαρεῖος

κτείνουσα λιμῷ τοὺς ὑπερπόλλους ἄγαν.

Χορός

795ἀλλ᾽ εὐσταλῆ τοι λεκτὸν ἀροῦμεν στόλον.

Δαρεῖος

ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ὁ μείνας νῦν ἐν Ἑλλάδος τόποις
στρατὸς κυρήσει νοστίμου σωτηρίας.

Χορός

πῶς εἶπας; οὐ γὰρ πᾶν στράτευμα βαρβάρων
περᾷ τὸν Ἕλλης πορθμὸν Εὐρώπης ἄπο;

Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Persians. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.

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