And mingled blood with milk once sucked by me,

And as she groaned with horror at the sight,

Thus it beseems who bore a monstrous birth

No common death to die. I am the serpent

Shall bite her breast. It is a truthful dream.

My seer be thou. Say have I read it well?

Chorus.

Bravely. Now, for the rest, thy friends instruct

What things to do, and what things to refrain.

Orestes.