9. For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrificeand carried out with one mind the divine institution,So that your holy ones should share alike the same blessings and dangers,once they had sung the ancestral hymns of praise.
10. But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back,and the piteous wail of mourning for children was borne to them.
11. And the slave was smitten with the same retribution as the master;even the commoner suffered the same as the king.
12. And all alike by one common form of deathhad countless dead;For the living were not even sufficient for the burial,since at a single instant their most valued offspring had been destroyed.