Our shrill, heart-rending wail goes with them—product of lamentation and pain felt of its own accord—a wail from a distressed mind, joyless, pouring forth tears from a heartthat wastes away as I weep for these two princes.

ChorusOver these poor men it can be said that they did much to harm our citizens and also the ranks of all the foreignerswho died in abundance in the fighting. Ill-fated beyond all women who are called by the name of mother is she who bore them. After she made her own child her own husband,