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When homeward-bound they sail for Ilium.
Then Zeus shall send down rain unutterable,
And hail, and from the welkin night of storm;
And to me promiseth his levin-flame 80
To smite the Achaians and burn their ships with fire.
But thou—the Aegean sea-pass make thou roar
With surge and whirlpits of the ravening brine,
And thou with corpses choke Eubœa's gulf;
That Greeks may learn henceforth to reverence 85
My temples, and to fear all Gods beside.

This shall be: thy boon needs not many words.
The wide Aegean sea will I turmoil;
The shores of Mykonus, the Delian reefs,
Skyros, and Lemnos, the Kapherean cliffs 90
With many dead men's corpses shall be strewn.
Pass thou to Olympus; from thy father's hands
Receive the levin-bolts, and watch the hour
When Argos' host shall cast the hawsers loose.
Fool, that in sack of towns lays temples waste,^[1] 95
And tombs, the sanctuaries of the dead!
He, sowing desolation, reaps destruction.

Hecuba awaking, raises herself on her arm.

(Str. 1)
Uplift thou thine head, O fortune-accurst; from the earth upraise thy neck bowed low.