Why hesitate to share his punishment?1025

The beauty of all human intercourse

Has fallen into ruin for thy sake,

Confused and lost, O wretch incestuous.

Not if the father of the gods himself

Should hurl at me his glittering thunderbolts,

Could I for my foul crimes atonement make,1030

Since I the name of mother have profaned.

Now death is welcome, but the way of death

Must I consider.