Would thou may'st perish with no hand to help,

Crossing the sea's wide plain,

In wanderings far and wide,

Where Sarpedonian sand-bank[[261]] spreads its length,

Driven by the sweeping blasts!

Her. Sob thou, and howl, and call upon the Gods:

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Thou shalt not 'scape that barque from Ægypt come,

Though thou should'st pour a bitterer strain of grief.

Antistrophe II