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Of iron point that heads the spear's strong shaft?
But lo! in glory like the face of gods,
The mother of my king, my queen, appears:
Let us do reverent homage at her feet;
Yea, it is meet that all
Should speak to her with words of greeting kind.
Enter Atossa in a chariot of state
Chor. O sovereign queen of Persian wives deep-zoned,
Mother of Xerxes, reverend in thine age,