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Children
Your sons are dead and gone. Alas, father! [1140] dead and gone. Chorus
The boundless air now wraps them round, turned to ashes by the flame; they have winged their flight to Hades. Children
Father, do you hear your children's lamentation? Shall I ever, arrayed as a warrior, avenge [1145] your slaughter—if it may be so—and beget children?
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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