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THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS
15
Danaus
Even so—with gracious aspect let him aid.
Chorus
Fain were I now to seat me by thy side.
Danaus
Now dally not, but put our thought in act.
Chorus
Zeus, pity our distress, or e'er we die.
Danaus
If so he will, your toils to joy will turn.
Chorus
Lo, on this shrine, the semblance of a bird.[1]
Danaus
Zeus' bird of dawn it is; invoke the sign.
Chorus
Thus I invoke the saving rays of morn.
- ↑ The whole of this dialogue in alternate verses is disarranged in the MSS. The re-arrangement which has approved itself to Paley has been here followed. It involves, however, a hiatus, instead of the line to which this note is appended. The substance of the lost line being easily deducible from the context, it has been supplied in the translation.
