leader of the great Grecian name, met death on his very

threshold at the hand of his atrocious spouse; Asia fell 10

before him, but the adulterer rose in her room. Cruel gods,

that would not have me restored to the hearth-fires of my

home, to see once more the wife of my longing and my own

fair Calydon! Nay, even my flight is dogged by portents

of dreadful view; my comrades torn from me are winging 15

the air and haunting the stream as birds—alas that the

followers of my fortunes should suffer so!—and making

the rocks ring with the shrieks of their sorrow. Such was