Whose look back-drove the bristling line,

Bled by a woman’s knife.

ANTISTROPHE III.

O woman! woman! Lemnos saw[n49]

Your jealous fountains flow,

And, when the worst of woes is named,

It is a Lemnian woe.

From age to age the infected tale,

Far echoed by a wandering wail,

To East and West shall go;