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Xerxes
How true it is. In the loss of so great an army [1015] I have indeed been dealt a blow, wretched as I am. Chorus
What that belonged to Persia, unfortunate one, has not been destroyed? Xerxes
Do you see this remnant of my royal robe? Chorus
Yes, I do indeed. Xerxes
[1020] And this quiver— Chorus
What is this you say has been saved? Xerxes
Treasury for shafts? Chorus
Truly a small remnant from an ample store. Xerxes
We have been deprived of defenders. Chorus
[1025] Ionia's people shrink not from the spear.
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1. Persians. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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