Of Zeus the Avenger, whereby plains are out-ploughed,

Altars unrecognizable, and god's shrines,

And the whole land's seed thoroughly has perished.

And such a yoke-strap having cast round Troia,

The elder king Atreides, happy man—he

Comes to be honored, worthiest of what mortals

Now are. Nor Paris nor the accomplice-city

Outvaunts their deed as more than they are done-by:

For, in a suit for rape and theft found guilty,

He missed of plunder and, in one destruction,