Bend in their burning banks a molten flood:

That at his word so many messengers

Would bring thee fire from heaven, that not a hearth

In all thy land but straight would have a god 391

To kneel and fan the flame: and yet to him,

It is to him thou prayest.

In. Therefore to him.

Pr. Is this thy wisdom, king, to sow thy seed

Year after year in this unsprouting soil?

Hast thou not proved and found the will of Zeus