Cass. Sure, thou hast seen my bodings all amiss.

Chor. I see not his device who works the deed.

Cass. And yet I speak the Hellenic tongue right well.

Chor. So does the Pythian, yet her words are hard.

Cass. [In another access of frenzy.] Ah me, this fire!

It comes upon me now!

Ah me, Apollo, wolf-slayer! woe is me!

This biped lioness who takes to bed

A wolf in absence of the noble lion,

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