The leader whom the men of Susa loved,
Antistrophe I
While those who fought as soldiers or at sea,
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These ships, dark-hulled, well-rowed,
Their own ships bore them on, woe! woe!
Their own ships lost them all, woe! woe!
Their own ships, in the crash of ruin urged,
And by Ionian hands?[[45]]
The king himself, we hear, but hardly 'scapes,