Will yield the suppliant sisters; thus the people
With one acclaim have voted; ’tis nailed down
Thus to the letter. So it must remain.
Thou hast my answer, not in tablets graven,
Or in the volumed scroll, all stamped and sealed,
But from a free Greek mouth. Dost understand me?
Hence quickly from my sight!
Herald.
Of this be sure,
A war thou stirrest, in which, when once begun,