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Quotation from Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus

“My bark goes forth upon a sea of troubles”

Aeschylus (spoken by Pelasgus)

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Suppliant Maidens, the king's deliberation, trans. E. D. A. Morshead (1908)

Pelasgus describes his dilemma between protecting the suppliants and bringing war on Argos.

Citation: "My bark goes forth upon a sea of troubles" — Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays, The Suppliant Maidens, the king's deliberation, trans. E. D. A. Morshead (1908). (id aeschylus-prometheus-bound-and-other-plays-q1)

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