2nd Half-Chorus
Yet may fate again bring low the brilliant victor; ’tis this brave thought that twines about my heart.
1st Half-Chorus
Thou speak’st of the gods as if they were just.
610
2nd Half-Chorus
For who but they allot whate’er betides?
1st Half-Chorus
I see many a contradiction in their dealings with men.
2nd Half-Chorus
The former fear hath warped thy judgment. Vengeance calls vengeance forth; slaughter calls for slaughter,
but the gods give respite from affliction, holding in their own hands each thing’s allotted end.
615
The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. E. P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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