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EURIPIDES.

Semichorus 1.

For whom was the night's first watch proclaimed?
..[1]


Semichorus 2.

For the scion of Mygdon, Korœbus named.


Semichorus 1.

Who then?


Semichorus 2.

The Paionians roused the folk 540
Of Cilicia: us the Mysians woke.


Semichorus 1.

High time is it then that we hasted to call
The Lycians; to them did the fifth watch fall,
When the lot to our stations assigned us all.


Chorus.

(Ant.)
I hear, I hear—'tis the nightingale! The mother that slew her child—[2]
As broodeth her wing o'er the fearful thing, the eternal murder-stain—
By Simoïs chanteth her heart-stricken wail ; the voice of her woe rings wild,
As passions a lute of many a string,—winged poet of hopeless pain! 550

  1. A line is lost here, which should correspond to l. 558.
  2. The reference is to the legend of Philomela, according to one version of which the stain of the blood of Itys always clung to the nightingale's nest.