Chorus.
They can boast a fount of silver, native treasure to the land.[f20]
Atossa.
Are they bowmen good? sure-feathered do their pointed arrows fly?
Chorus.
Not so. Stable spears they carry, massy armature of shields.
Atossa.
Who is shepherd of this people? lord of the Athenian host?
Chorus.
Slaves are they to no man living, subject to no earthly name.[n11]