Pr. There is, O king, fire on the earth this day:
But not as thou dost seek it to be found.
In. How seeking wrongly shall I seek aright?
Pr. Thou prayest here to Zeus, and him thou callest 381
Almighty, knowing he could grant thy prayer:
That if ’twere but his will, the journeying sun
Might drop a spark into thine outstretched hand:
That at his breath the splashing mountain brooks
That fall from Orneæ, and cold Lernè’s pool
Would change their element, and their chill streams