For there is sworn a great oath from the gods that

Him shall bring hither his fallen sire's prostration.

Why make I then, like an indweller, moaning?

Since at the first I foresaw Ilion's city

Suffering as it has suffered: and who took it,

Thus by the judgment of the gods are faring.

I go, will suffer, will submit to dying!

But, Haides' gates—these same I call, I speak to,

And pray that on an opportune blow chancing,

Without a struggle,—blood the calm death bringing