bands, the Danaids sing good wishes for their new country. No longer is the Nile to claim their praise,—
"Nay, but the rivers here, that pour calm streams through our country,
Parents of many a son, making glad the soil of our meadows,
With wide flood rolling on in full and abounding riches."
Then they are somewhat divided in their words: the one band can only repeat its fears of their hateful pursuers, and finds all love and marriage henceforth odious; while the other half of the Chorus is anxious rather not to disparage the divinity of the Cyprian goddess, and looks forward yet to happy wedlock. Yet both unite in speaking well of Aphrodite:—
Semichorus A.
"Not that our kindly strain does slight to Cypris immortal,
For she, together with Hera, as nearest to Zeus is mighty,
A goddess of subtle thoughts she is honoured in mysteries solemn."
Semichorus B.
"Yea, as associates too with that their mother beloved
Are fair Desire and Suasion, whose pleading no man can gainsay;
Yea, to sweet Concord too Aphrodite's power is intrusted,
And the whispering paths of the Loves."
And so, with good hopes for the issue of the trial which yet remains finally to decide their case, the play concludes. This trial probably formed the subject of a succeeding piece.
