Yet daring other crime, by terror driven

To sink her son with her beneath the waves.25

Oh, happy they whose better fortune gave

Mothers like these! There is another place

Within these woods—my place, which calls to me,

To which I fain would haste; my eager feet

Will not delay, and thither will I go,

Unguided, all alone. Why hesitate30

To seek the place that most belongs to me?

Give back that death, Cithaeron, give again