"'Dead—so one speaks now of Euripides!'

'Ungarlanded dance Choros, did he say?

I guess the reason: in extreme old age

No doubt such have the gods for visitants.

Why did he dedicate to Herakles

An altar else, but that the god, turned Judge,

Told him in dream who took the crown of gold?

He who restored Akropolis the theft,

Himself may feel perhaps a timely twinge

At thought of certain other crowns he filched