Atossa.
How can such repel the onset of a strong united host?
Chorus.
How Darius knew in Hellas, when he lost vast armies there.
Atossa.
Things of deep concern thou speakest to all mothers in this land.
Chorus.
Thou shalt know anon exactly more than I can guess, for lo!
Here comes one—a hasty runner—he should be a Persian man.
News, I wis, this herald bringeth of deep import, good or bad.