Poseidon.
We have never needed to be ingenious. It has been enough for us to command, to wield the elements like weapons, to say it shall be and to see it is.
Eros.
To see it is not, and yet to make it be, perhaps this may be a joy in store for us. For Hephæstus, certainly; for you, if you are
wise; but for me, ah! what will there be? My arrows break against old hearts, and now we all are old.
[Pallas Athene comes rapidly down the steps from the house and speaks while still behind Eros.]
Pallas.
I have brought with me the box which Epimetheus made for Pandora.
Eros [turning suddenly].
Ah! Pallas! What, you have brought that ivory box with you? Why did you burden your hands with that?