He is rousing himself right up: and then,

Murder on murder heaping anew,

He will revel in blood your city through!

Cho. O Zeus, why hast, with such unmeasured hate,

Hated thy son, whelmed in this sea of woes?

Her. Ha,—

In breath indeed I am—see things I ought—

Æther, and earth, and these the sunbeam-shafts!

But then—some billow and strange whirl of sense

I have fallen into! and breathings hot I breathe—