High his front of wrath up-rearing

’Gainst the guilty roof.

For heavily, heavily weighs the Alastor,

Scapeless, and, with sore disaster,

Sinks the sinner low.

Bless, O Jove, this Argive nation,

That knew their kindred’s supplication,

And saved them from the foe:

And when their vows they pay, then surely

Gifts from clean hands offered purely