Thoas.

He falls! The last o’ the Heraclids is fallen!

[Exit in their direction.

Scene 2

The Temple of Hestia. Evening: torches are lit. In the centre a statue of the goddess. Rhodope appears from the right in solemn procession, with her Lesbia, Hero, and Karna.

Rhodope.

Karna, the funeral-pyre—’tis being built?

Karna.

’Tis built ere now.

[Rhodope paces into the temple and kneels before the statue of the goddess.