Ah Zeus! On account of the poisonous hate of Io vengeance from the gods pursues us. The assets of public debtors and exiles were ascertained and secured at Athens by officers called μαστῆρες . I know your consort’s sky-conquering spite; for a stormy sea follows a harsh wind.
 Chorus 
 And Zeus shall then be liable to the charge of injustice that he hates the child of the heifer, the child whom he himself begat long ago, his very own, and now he holds his face averted from our prayers. May he from above hear our call!