Jove works the wise remorse:
Dread Powers, on awful seats enthroned, compel
Our hearts with gracious force.[n20]
ANTISTROPHE II.
The elder chief, the leader of the ships,
Heard the dire doom, nor dared to ope his lips
Against the seer, and feared alone to stand
’Gainst buffeting fate, what time the Chalcian strand[f11]
Saw the vexed Argive masts
In Aulis tides hoarse-refluent,[n21] idly chained