ANTISTROPHE.
Never, O! never may Fate,
All-powerful Fate which rules both gods and men,
See me approaching the dread Thunderer’s bed,
And sharing marriage with the Olympian king,
An humble Ocean-maid!
May wretched Io, chased by Hera’s wrath,
Unhusbanded, unfriended, fill my sense
With profitable fear.
EPODE.