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Chorus [of the Danaids]
Come now away, glorifying the blessed gods, lords of the city both those who guard the town [1020] and those who dwell about Erasinus' ancient stream. And you handmaidens take up the song. Let the theme of our praise be this city of the Pelasgians, and no longer [1025] let the homage of our hymns be paid to Nile's floods where they seek the sea,
Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 2. Suppliant Women. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1926.
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