The curse of Œdipus,

Laying his children low.

This Strife doth urge them on.

Antistrophe I

And now a stranger doth divide the lots,

The Chalyb,[[117]] from the Skythians emigrant,

The stern distributor of heaped-up wealth,

The iron that hath assigned them just so much

Of land as theirs, no more,

As may suffice for them