GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg002.perseus-eng2:681 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg002.perseus-eng2:681

O most faithful of the faithful, comrades of my youth, aged Persians, what is it that is troubling the state? The earth groans and is furrowed by the stamp of men. As I behold my wife by my tomb,