The corpse here: you must stay and do your part,

Chant proper pæan to the God below;

Drink-sacrifice he likes not. I decree

That all Thessalians over whom I rule

Hold grief in common with me; let them shear

Their locks, and be the peplos black they show!

And you who to the chariot yoke your steeds,

Or manage steeds one-frontleted,—I charge,

Clip from each neck with steel the mane away!

And through my city, nor of flute nor lyre