To them the very land is true ally.
Chor. What meanest thou? How fights the land for them?
Dar. [*]It slays with famine those vast multitudes.
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Chor. We then a host, select, compact, will raise.
Dar. Nay, e'en the host which now in Hellas stays[[59]]
Will ne'er return in peace and safety home.
Chor. How say'st thou? Does not all the barbarous host
Cross from Europa o'er the straits of Hellè?
Dar. But few of many; if 'tis meet for one