Has flower’d to-day in amaranth: what the hope

Thou knowest, who hast shared; but the condition

I told thee not and thou hast heard: this prophet,

Who comes to bring us fire, hath said that Zeus

Wills not the gift he brings, and will be wroth

With us that take it.

Ar. O doleful change, I came

In pious purpose, nay, I heard within 891

The hymn to glorious Zeus: I rose and said,

The mighty god now bends, he thrusts aside