Strophe IX

Cass. Woe for the marriage-ties, the marriage-ties

Of Paris that brought ruin on his friends!

Woe for my native stream,

Scamandros, that I loved!

Once on thy banks my maiden youth was reared,

(Ah, miserable me!)

Now by Cokytos and by Acheron's shores

I seem too likely soon to utter song

Of wild, prophetic speech.