That so the eye of Zeus may ease desire.’

With such-like dreams the kingly dark for me

Was ever fraught, me miserable: till, ridden,

I gat me heart to open to my father

The visions and the dreams of night. And he

To Pytho, yea, and even to Dodona,

Sent embassage on embassage, inquiring

What thing he had need to do, or what word speak,

To pleasure them that rule us. And they came,

Bringing still back burden of wavering lips,