Tyndareus[138] meets my eye; the brilliant blaze gives light

to my wandering feet and ranging glance. Yes, she in her

guilty fears, dreading at once the Teucrians whom the

overthrow of Pergamus had made her foes, and the vengeance

of the Danaans, and the wrath of the husband she 25

abandoned—she, the common fiend of Troy and of her

country, had hid herself away, and was sitting in hateful

solitude at the altar. My spirit kindled into flame—a

fury seized me to avenge my country in its fall, and to do

justice on a wretch. ‘So she is to see Sparta and her 30