Chorus
The Nereids, leaving
Euboea
’s headlands, brought from Hephaestus’ anvil his shield-work of golden armor,
up to
Pelion
and the glens at the foot of holy Ossa, the Nymphs’ watch-tower . . . where his father, the horseman, was training the son of Thetis as a light for
Hellas
,
445
sea-born, swift-footed for the sons of Atreus.
450
Electra. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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