Awake! Wake her up, as I wake you.Still asleep? Get up, shake off sleep, let us see if any part of this beginningThe 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.

ChorusOh, 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.