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Chorus Leader
But look! I see the children of Heracles who was once so great, wearing the clothes of the dead, [445] and his loving wife dragging her babes along at her side, and Heracles' aged father. Ah! woe is me! no longer can I stem the flood of tears [450] that spring to my old eyes.
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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