Reveal his name ungrudgingly.
 Chorus Aegyptus ; and now that you know my ancient lineage, I pray you to help Literally raise from sanctuary. a band that is Argive by descent.
 King I think you indeed have some share in this land from old. But how did you bring yourselves to leave the home of your fathers? What stroke of fortune befell you?
 Chorus 
 Lord of the Pelasgians, of varying color are the ills of mankind, and nowhere can you find trouble of the same plume. For who dreamed that a kindred race, sprung of old, would thus in unexpected flight find haven at Argos , fleeing in terror through loathing of the marriage-bed?