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Название: Four Plays of Aeschylus

Автор: Aeschylus

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      Lastly, adore this altar consecrate

       To many lesser gods in one; then crouch

       On holy ground, a flock of doves that flee,

       Scared by no alien hawks, a kin not kind,

       Hateful, and fain of love more hateful still.

       Foul is the bird that rends another bird,

       And foul the men who hale unwilling maids,

       From sire unwilling, to the bridal bed.

       Never on earth, nor in the lower world,

       Shall lewdness such as theirs escape the ban:

       There too, if men say right, a God there is

       Who upon dead men turns their sin to doom,

       To final doom. Take heed, draw hitherward,

       That from this hap your safety ye may win.

       {Enter the KING OF ARGOS.

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      Speak—of what land are ye? No Grecian band

       Is this to whom I speak, with Eastern robes

       And wrappings richly dight: no Argive maid,

       No woman in all Greece such garb doth wear.

       This too gives marvel, how unto this land,

       Unheralded, unfriended, without guide,

       And without fear, ye came? yet wands I see,

       True sign of suppliance, by you laid down

       On shrines of these our gods of festival.

       No land but Greece can read such signs aright.

       Much else there is, conjecture well might guess,

       But let words teach the man who stands to hear.

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      True is the word thou spakest of my garb;

       But speak I unto thee as citizen,

       Or Hermes' wandbearer, or chieftain king?

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      For that, take heart and answer without fear.

       I am Pelasgus, ruler of this land,

       Child of Palaichthon, whom the earth brought forth;

       And, rightly named from me, the race who reap

       This country's harvests are Pelasgian called.

       And o'er the wide and westward-stretching land,

       Through which the lucent wave of Strymon flows

       I rule; Perrhaebia's land my boundary is

       Northward, and Pindus' further slopes, that watch

       Paeonia, and Dodona's mountain ridge.

       West, east, the limit of the washing seas

       Restrains my rule—the interspace is mine.

       But this whereon we stand is Apian land,

       Styled so of old from the great healer's name;

       For Apis, coming from Naupactus' shore

       Beyond the strait, child of Apollo's self

       And like him seer and healer, cleansed this land

       From man-devouring monsters, whom the earth,

       Stained with pollution of old bloodshedding,

       Brought forth in malice, beasts of ravening jaws,

       A grisly throng of serpents manifold.

       And healings of their hurt, by knife and charm,

       Apis devised, unblamed of Argive men,

       And in their prayers found honour, for reward.

      —Lo, thou hast heard the tokens that I give:

       Speak now thy race, and tell a forthright tale;

       In sooth, this people loves not many words.

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