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Nor fire nor meteor hurls a mightier bolt than Aphrodites shaft shot by the hands of Love, the child of Zeus.
535
Chorus
Idly, idly by the streams of Alpheus and in the Pythian shrines of Phoebus, Hellas
heaps the slaughtered steers; while Love we worship not, Love, the king of men, who holds the key to Aphrodites
sweetest bower,—worship not him who, when he comes, lays waste and marks his path to mortal hearts by wide-spread woe.
545
Chorus
There was that maiden[*] in Oechalia, a girl unwed, that knew no wooer yet nor married joys; her did the queen of Love[*] snatch from her home across the sea
and gave unto Alcmenas son, mid blood and smoke and murderous marriage-hymns, to be to him a frantic fiend of hell; woe! woe for his wooing!
555
Chorus
Ah! holy walls of Thebes, ah! fount of Dirce, ye could testify what course the love-queen follows. For with the blazing levin-bolt
did she cut short the fatal marriage of Semele, mother of Zeus-bom Bacchus. All things she doth inspire, dread goddess, winging her flight hither and thither like a bee.
565
Phaedra
Peace, ladies, peace! I am undone.
Chorus
What, Phaedra, is this dread event within thy house?
Phaedra
Hush! let me hear what those within are saying.
Chorus
I am silent; this is surely the prelude to mischief.
Phaedra
Great gods!

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