O'ercome by sleep I have my quarry lost.

Antistrophe I

Ah, son of Zeus, a very robber thou,

Though young, thou didst old Goddesses ride down,[[486]]

Honouring thy suppliant, godless though he be,

One whom his parents loathe:

Thou, though a God, a matricide hast freed:

Of which of these acts can one speak as just?

Strophe II

Yea, this reproach that came to me in dreams