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For now in truth the whole land of Asia, decimated, moans: [550] Xerxes led forth （woe!）, Xerxes laid low （woe!）, Xerxes disposed all things imprudently with his sea-going vessels. Why then was Darius [555] in his time so unscathed by disaster, he who was ruler of archers, to the men of Susa a beloved leader?
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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