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Chorus
[645] O fatherland, o house, may I never be bereft of my city, never have a life of helplessness, a cruel life, most pitiable of woes. [650] In death, O in death may I be brought low ere that, ending the light of my life. Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one's native land.
Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
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