REPETITIONS THIRD SERIES
Then and Now
Always at the last moment the Gods interfered and
the worst things were ward off — while the messenger
still spoke and the conflict and the stoppage of the ship
were planned in the mind of the king; Athena standing
at the top of the temple was already addressing the king
of the barbarians and the fleeting Hellenes riding
the fifty-oared ship: “Fate, she exclaimed, is the same
for Gods and mortals. Your anger, Thoa, is unacceptable;
and you, Hellenes, have a good voyage” Yet, now
that the Gods were absent we fear for the worst —
that unacceptable anger even as the ship of Orestes
is crashed on the rocks and one single plank is floating
with the word silence written on it.
Libros Libertad 