For to the dead no profit bringeth wealth.

[Exit, disappearing in the earth.

Chor. I shudder as I hear the many woes

Both past and present that on Persians fall.

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Atoss. [O God, how many evils fall on me![[63]]

And yet this one woe biteth more than all,

Hearing my son's shame in the rags of robes

That clothe his limbs. But I will go and take

A fit adornment from my house, and try