To the altars of the city, to the shrines

Of the protecting gods, wasting no speech

On whom you meet. Attend the suppliant stranger!

[Exeunt Attendants with Danaus.

Chorus.

These words to him: and, with his sails well trimmed,

Fair be his voyage! But I, what shall I do,

My anchor where?

King.

Here leave these boughs that prove