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Chorus
The attendants of the goddess take up the lament.
Behold a rivalry in sorrow! woe takes up the tale of woe; the hands of servants make an echo. Come, you who join the mourners' wail, come, O sympathetic band, [75] to join the dance, which Hades honors; let the white nail be stained red, as it rends your cheeks, let your skin be streaked with gore; for honors rendered to the dead are an ornament to the living.
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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