Fresh and unstaunched woes to hear,

Lord of a mighty lord appear!

For the clouds of Stygian night o’ercome us,

And all our youth are perished from us,

Come, good father Darius, come!

EPODE.

O woe! and woe! and yet again

Woe, and misery, and pain!

Why should’st thou die, and leave the land

Thou master of the mighty hand?