Asopus

I am come, and others with me, young warriors from the land of Athens, encamped by the streams of Asopus, to help thy son, old friend.

Heracles 2008

Then off they sped, like birds that skim the air, to the plains beneath the hills, which bear a fruitful harvest for Thebes beside the waters of Asopus; to Hysiae and Erythrae, hamlets 'neath

The Bacchantes 2008

Shall Asopus 'laughing tide ever reflect my brazen arms as I lead on my Argive troops?

The Suppliants 2008

Deck thee with garlands, O Ismenus! break forth into dancing, ye paved streets of our seven-gated city! come Dirce, fount of waters fair; and joined with her ye daughters of Asopus, come from your father's waves to add your maiden voices to our hymn, the victor's prize that Heracles hath won.

Heracles 2008

I will bury the dead, when from Asopus 'land I have removed them.

The Suppliants 2008

Soon as we had left the homesteads of this Theban land and had crossed the streams of Asopus, we began to breast Cithaeron's heights, Pentheus and I, for I went with my master, and the stranger too, who was to guide us to the scene.

The Bacchantes 2008

I am come, and others with me, young warriors from the land of Athens, encamped by the streams of Asopus, to help thy son, old friend.

Heracles 2008

Deck thee with garlands, O Ismenus! break forth into dancing, ye paved streets of our seven-gated city! come Dirce, fount of waters fair; and joined with her ye daughters of Asopus, come from your father's waves to add your maiden voices to our hymn, the victor's prize that Heracles hath won.

Heracles 2008

Then off they sped, like birds that skim the air, to the plains beneath the hills, which bear a fruitful harvest for Thebes beside the waters of Asopus; to Hysiae and Erythrae, hamlets 'neath

The Bacchantes 2008

Asopus and the waters of Ismenus, and declare this message to the haughty king of the Cadmeans: "Theseus, thy neighbour, one who well may win the boon he craves, begs as a favour thy permission to bury the dead, winning to thyself thereby the love of all the Erechtheidae."

The Suppliants 2008