Now will all Argos come to welcome me;

The thronging folk will come—and Atreus too!

Oh, better far reseek thy wooded haunts,

Thy glades remote, and, mingled with the brutes,

Live e'en as they. Why should this splendid realm

With its fair-seeming glitter blind my eyes?415

When thou dost look upon the goodly gift,

Scan well the giver too. Of late I lived

With bold and joyous spirit, though my lot

All men considered hard to bear. But now