Is it in Phthia you seek for a happy land? No matter; affliction comes to the good as to the evil.
Orestes.
Why, what ails your city, if a stranger may know?
Priest.
See you that shrine, and the footprint of Thetis in the rock? Once it was all covered with offerings!
Orestes.
It is not so well loaded, nor yet so ill. Is there no worse than that?
Priest.
Worse? Barren fields and a barren queen, and hatred in the house of Achilles!