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THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS.
Danaus.
Even so—with gracious aspect let him aid
Chorus.
Fain were I now to seat me by thy side.
Danaus.
Now dally not, but put our thought in act.
Chorus.
Zeus, pity our distress, or e'er we die.
Danaus.
If so he will, your toils to joy will turn.
Chorus.
Lo, on this shrine, the semblance of a bird.[1]
Danaus.
Zeus' bird of dawn it is; invoke the sign
Chorus.
Thus I invoke the saving rays of morn.
Danaus.
Next, bright Apollo, exiled once from heaven.
- ↑ The whole of this dialogue in alternate verses is disarranged in the MSS. The re-arrangement which has approved itself to Paley has been here followed. It involves, however, a hiatus, instead of the line to which this note is appended. The substance of the lost line being easily deducible from the context, it has been supplied in the translation.
