_Xer._ Stripped bare of escort I! _Chor._ Yea, by sore loss at sea Disastrous to thy friends. STROPHE VI _Xer._ Weep for our sorrow, weep, Yea, go ye to the house. _Chor._ Woe for our griefs, woe, woe! _Xer._ Cry out an echoing cry. _Chor._ Ill gift of ills on ills. 1020 _Xer._ Weep on in wailing chant. _Chor._ Oh! ah! Oh! ah! _Xer._ Grievous our bitter woes. _Chor._ Ah me, I mourn them sore. ANTISTROPHE VI _Xer._ Ply, ply your hands and groan; Yea, for my sake bewail. _Chor._ I weep in bitter grief. _Xer._ Cry out an echoing cry. _Chor._ Yea, we may raise our voice, O Lord and King, in wail. _Xer._ Raise now shrill cry of woe. _Chor._ Ah me! Ah! Woe is me! 1030 _Xer._ Yea, with it mingle dark.... _Chor._ And bitter, grievous blows. STROPHE VII _Xer._ Yea, beat thy breast, and cry After the Mysian type. _Chor._ Oh, misery! oh, misery! _Xer._ Yea, tear the white hair off thy flowing beard. _Chor._ Yea; with clenched hands, with clenchèd hands, I say, In very piteous guise. _Xer._ Cry out, cry out aloud. _Chor._ That also will I do. ANTISTROPHE VII _Xer._ And with thy fingers tear Thy bosom's folded robe. _Chor._ Oh, misery! oh, misery! 1040 _Xer._ Yea, tear thy hair in wailing for our host. _Chor._ Yea, with clenched hands, I say, with clenchèd hands, In very piteous guise. _Xer._ Be thine eyes wet with tears. _Chor._ Behold the tears stream down. EPODE _Xer._ Raise a re-echoing cry. _Chor._ Ah woe! ah woe! _Xer._ Go to thy home with wailing loud and long. _Chor._ O land of Persia, full of lamentations! _Xer._ Through the town raise your cries. _Chor._ We raise them, yea, we raise. 1050 _Xer._ Wail, wail, ye men that walked so daintily. _Chor._ O land of Persia, full of lamentations! Woe; woe! _Xer._ Alas for those who in the triremes perished! _Chor._ With broken cries of woe will I escort thee. [_Exeunt in procession, wailing, and rending their robes._ ----- Footnote 3: “The Faithful,” or “trusty,” seems to have been a special title of honour given to the veteran councillors of the king (Xenoph. _Anab._ i. 15), just as that of the “Immortals” was chosen for his body-guard (Herod, vii. 83). Footnote 4: Susa was pre-eminently the treasury of the Persian kings (Herod, v. 49; Strabo, xv. p. 731), their favourite residence in spring, as Ecbatana in Media was in summer and Babylon in winter. Footnote 5: