CHORUS
O child of Zeus, one word shall tell thee all.
We are the children of eternal Night,
And Furies in the underworld are called.

ATHENA
I know your lineage now and eke your name.

CHORUS
Yea, and eftsoons indeed my rights shalt know.

ATHENA
Fain would I learn them; speak them clearly forth.

CHORUS
We chase from home the murderers of men.

ATHENA
And where at last can he that slew make pause?

CHORUS
Where this is law—All joy abandon here.

ATHENA
Say, do ye bay this man to such a flight?

CHORUS
Yea, for of choice he did his mother slay.

ATHENA
Urged by no fear of other wrath and doom?