suppliant
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Another Aeschylean drama, “The Suppliant Women,” shows King Pelasgus deferring to the Argive assembly when confronted with the Danaids’ plea for asylum.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2025
Novelist Tarkington, one of the kindliest and most helpful writers in the busi ness, soothed and encouraged Suppliant Roberts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Believe thy fables, and the Trojan town Triumphant stands; the Grecians are o'erthrown; Suppliant at Hector's feet Achilles lies, And Diomede from fierce Aeneas flies.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Such stories could be turned into high religious mysteries, as by Aeschylus in his Suppliant Women; into tender and reverent legends, as by Pindar in one or two odes.
From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert
Soon will the Grecians now my knees surround Suppliant, by dread extremity constrain'd.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
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