Thou speak’st as one who mocks a simple girl.
Chorus.
Old Troy is taken? how?—when did it fall?
Clytemnestra.
The self-same night that mothers this to-day.
Chorus.
But how? what stalwart herald ran so fleetly?
Clytemnestra.
Hephæstus.[f15] He from Ida shot the spark;[n30]
And flaming straightway leapt the courier fire