Ἄτοσσα
αἰαῖ, κακῶν ὕψιστα δὴ κλύω τάδε,
αἴσχη τε Πέρσαις καὶ λιγέα κωκύματα.
ἀτὰρ φράσον μοι τοῦτ᾽ ἀναστρέψας πάλιν:
πόσον δὲ πλῆθος ἦν νεῶν Ἑλληνίδων,
335ὥστ᾽ ἀξιῶσαι Περσικῷ στρατεύματι
μάχην συνάψαι ναΐοισιν ἐμβολαῖς;
Ἄγγελος
πλήθους μὲν ἂν σάφ᾽ ἴσθ᾽ ἕκατι βάρβαρον
ναυσὶν κρατῆσαι. καὶ γὰρ Ἕλλησιν μὲν ἦν
ὁ πᾶς ἀριθμὸς ἐς τριακάδας δέκα
340ναῶν, δεκὰς δ᾽ ἦν τῶνδε χωρὶς ἔκκριτος:
Ξέρξῃ δέ, καὶ γὰρ οἶδα, χιλιὰς μὲν ἦν
ὧν ἦγε πλῆθος, αἱ δ᾽ ὑπέρκοποι τάχει
ἑκατὸν δὶς ἦσαν ἑπτά θ᾽: ὧδ᾽ ἔχει λόγος.
μή σοι δοκοῦμεν τῇδε λειφθῆναι μάχῃ;
345ἀλλ᾽ ὧδε δαίμων τις κατέφθειρε στρατόν,
τάλαντα βρίσας οὐκ ἰσορρόπῳ τύχῃ.
θεοὶ πόλιν σῴζουσι Παλλάδος θεᾶς.
Ἄτοσσα
ἔτ᾽ ἆρ᾽ Ἀθηνῶν ἔστ᾽ ἀπόρθητος πόλις;
Ἄγγελος
ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ὄντων ἕρκος ἐστὶν ἀσφαλές.
Ἄτοσσα
350ἀρχὴ δὲ ναυσὶ συμβολῆς τίς ἦν, φράσον:
τίνες κατῆρξαν, πότερον Ἕλληνες, μάχης,
ἢ παῖς ἐμός, πλήθει καταυχήσας νεῶν;
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Aeschylus. Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes. 1.Persians. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1926.
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