The gifts are far too little for the fault;

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For should a man pour all he has to pay

For one small drop of blood, the toil were vain:

So runs the saying. But if thou dost know,

Tell this to me as wishing much to learn.

Chor. I know, my child, for I was by. Stirred on

By dreams and wandering terrors of the night,

That godless woman these libations sent.

Orest. And have ye learnt the dream, to tell it right?