Foes of your blood, polluters of your race.
Can bird eat bird and be an holy thing?[n18]
Can man be pure, from an unwilling father
Robbing unwilling brides? Who does these deeds
Will find no refuge from lewd guilt in Hades;
For there, as we have heard, another Jove
Holds final judgment on the guilty shades.
But now be ready. Here await their coming;
May the gods grant a victory to our prayers!
Enter King.