Chorus of Argive Mothers
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Chorus · 1st Half-Chorus · 2nd Half-Chorus · Argive women · aged dames · hapless mothers · the Argive mothers · the mothers of Argos
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Suppliants
The aged mothers of the seven chieftains slain before Thebes, who come from Argos as suppliants and form the play's chorus, sometimes divided into two half-choruses.
wilt thou betray these suppliant symbols, and banish from thy land these aged women without the boon they should obtain?
and persuade thy son, whose aid we implore, to go unto the river Ismenus, there to place within my hapless arms the bodies of my children, slain in their prime and left without a tomb.
arise, rescue from the slain my children’s bodies, whose limbs, by death relaxed, are left a prey to savage mountain beasts,