Not yet I understand: through riddles dark

And cloudy oracles my wits are wandering.

STROPHE V.
Cassandra.

Ha! what bloody sight is this!

’Tis a net of Hades spread—

’Tis a snare to snare her lord,

The fond sharer of her bed.

The black chorus of the place[f24]

Shout for vengeance o’er the race,

Whose offence cries for atoning,