On Io’s seed may blow

A buffeting blast from her of black despairful woe.

ANTISTROPHE VIII.

O Jove, how then wilt thou be free

From just reproach of Libya’s daughters,

If thou in us dishonoured see

Him whom the heifer bore to thee

Whom thou didst chiefly love.

If thou from us shalt turn thy face,

What suppliant then shall seek thy grace?