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THE SUPPLIANT MAIDENS
The King of Argos
Held Zeus aloof then from the hornèd beast?
Chorus
'Tis said, he loved, in semblance of a bull.
The King of Argos
And his stern consort, did she aught thereon?
Chorus
One myriad-eyed she set, the heifer's guard.
The King of Argos
How namest thou this herdsman many-eyed?
Chorus
Argus, the child of Earth, whom Hermes slew.
The King of Argos
Still did the goddess vex the beast ill-starred?
Chorus
She wrought a gadfly with a goading sting.
The King of Argos
Thus drave she Io hence, to roam afar?
Chorus
Yea—this thy word coheres exact with mine.
