Northward of Ossa thou shalt touch the lands

Of Macedon.

Chor. Alas, we wish thee speed, 1132

But bid thee here farewell; for out of Greece

Thou goest ’mongst the folk whose chattering speech

Is like the voice of birds, nor home again

Wilt thou return.

Pr. Thy way along the coast

Lies till it southward turn, when thou shalt seek

Where wide on Strymon’s plain the hindered flood