Awake! Wake her up, as I wake you.Still asleep? Get up, shake off sleep, let us see if any part of this beginning The utterances of the Furies, as they rouse themselves to action, will be only a prelude to the fuller expression of their wrath. It is uncertain whether the first and second strophic groups were sung by single voices or by semi-choruses. is in vain.
 Chorus Oh, oh! Alas! We have suffered, friends.
 Indeed I have suffered much and all in vain. We have suffered very painfully, oh! an unbearable evil. The beast has escaped from our nets and is gone. Overcome by sleep, I have lost my prey.