Baleful and over-stimulant of wrath,

There might be words those words to heal and soothe.

But how to blot the guilt of kindred blood,

This needs a great atonement—many victims

Falling to many Gods—to heal the woe.

[*]I take my part, and turn aside from strife;

And I far rather would be ignorant

Than wise, forecasting evil. May the end,

Against my judgment, show itself as good!

Chor. Hear, then, the last of all our pleas for pity.