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Xerxes
Strike, strike, and groan for my sake. Chorus
I weep in lamentation! Xerxes
Now cry aloud in response to me. Chorus
This care, my lord, is mine. Xerxes
[1050] Lift up your voice now in lamentation. Chorus
Oh, oh! And with our wailing, alas, will be mingled bruising blows and shrieks of pain.
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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