κείνους δὲ κλαίω ξυμφορᾷ κεχρημένους (Euripides' Medea 347) → I weep for those who have suffered disaster
platform for speaking: Ar. and P. βῆμα, τό, V. βάθρον, τό (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 962).
βάθρον, βῆμα