Messenger.
It stands without the fence of walls. Men wall it.
Atossa.
But say, who first commenced the fight—the Greeks
Or, in his numbers strong, my kingly son.
Messenger.
Some evil god, or an avenging spirit,[f24]
Began the fray. From the Athenian fleet
There came a Greek,[n15] and thus thy son bespoke.
“Soon as the gloom of night shall fall, the Greeks