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Chorus
Dances, dances and banquets now prevail throughout the holy town of Thebes. [765] For change from tears, change from sorrow give birth to song. The new king is gone; our former monarch [770] rules, having made his way even from the harbor of Acheron. Hope beyond all expectation is fulfilled.
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Heracles, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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