And yeanling young of beasts that roam the fields,

Yet prays her sire fulfil these omens dread,

The good, the evil too.

And now I call on him, our Healer true,

Lest she upon the Danai send delays

That keep our ships through many weary days,

Urging a new strange rite,

Unblest alike by man and God's high law,

Evil close clinging, working sore despite,

Marring a wife's true awe.