Capitolo 68
And Ariomardus, affronts in vain?
Where is the heart of Seualces of fire?
Lilaeus, child of noble sire?
Are Tharubis and the sped of Memphis?
Hystaechmas, died Artembares?
And where is brave Masistes, where?
Add the account of death that I can feel!
XERXES
Alas, alas, they came, their eyes observed
Ancestral Athens in that fatal day.
Then with a struggle that lacerates it was them they placed
On the earth, and their life gasped away!
CHOIR
And the child of Batanochus, great Alpistus,
Gives the last name to the eye of State--
Saw You and he/she left once her him who of old man
Ten thousand thousand fight-man they enrolled?
His/her sire was child of Sesamas and him
From Megabates it jumped. Ah, pain is me,
You king of the bad fate!
Hast you lost Parthus, great lost Oebares?
Alas, the pain! hit of succeedeth of hit
On the pride of Persia; you the pain of tellest on pain!
XERXES
Bitter indeed the torment for killed comrade,
The brave and daring! you strikest to my soul
You grieve, you grieve over forgetting hateful pain.
My inside spirit sobs and with portion!
CHOIR
Another anchor we crave to see,
And doesn't see! ah, cavalry of thy,
Xanthis, you head of the men of Mardian
Innumerable! and you, bright Anchares,
It is ye which the cars checked the struggle,
Arsaces and the wight of Diaixis,
Kegdadatas, expensive Lythimnas,
Be Tolmus, avid of the lance!
I am standing bereft! not in train of thy
Them as erst come! ah, ne'er again
They returns to our eyes,
Car-borne, 'the neath silky canopies!
XERXES
Yea, gone is theirs who called once to harvest the innkeeper!
CHOIR
Yea, yea, forgotten lost!
XERXES
Alas, the pain and cost!
CHOIR
Alas, ye the paradisiacal powers!
Beaten Ye a pain past belief,
A pain, of the pains the head!
With stern of I wait, first to appear they Ate on us!
XERXES
Tormented is us--time doesn't say heavier hit!
CHOIR
Tormented! the decree is simple!
XERXES
Curse on curse and torment on torment that we know!