Mess. O name of Salamis that most I loathe!
Ah, how I groan, remembering Athens too!
Antistrophe III
Chor. Yea, to her enemies
Athens may well be hateful, and our minds
Remember how full many a Persian wife
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She, for no cause, made widows and bereaved.
Atoss. Long time I have been silent in my woe,
Crushed down with grief; for this calamity