HIPP OL YTU S
but my hopes grow dim when I see
the deeds of men and their destinies.
For fortune is ever veering, and the currents of life are
shifting
shifting, wandering forever. 1110
ANTISTROPHE
This is the lot in life I seek
and I pray that God may grant it me,
luck and prosperity
and a heart untroubled by anguish.
And a mind that is neither false clipped coin,
nor too clear-eyed in sincerity, 1115
that I may lightly change my ways,
my ways of today when tomorrow comes,
and so be happy all my life long.
STROPHE
My heart is no longer clear: 1120
I have seen what I never dreamed,
I have seen the brightest star of Athens,
stricken by a father's wrath,
banished to an alien land. 1125
Sands of the seashore!
Thicket of the mountain!
Where with his pacing hounds
he hunted wild beasts and killed
to the honor of holy Dictynna. 1130
ANTISTROPHE
He will never again mount his car
with its span of Venetian mares,
nor fill the ring of Limnae with the sound of horses'
hoofs.
The music which never slept
on the strings of his lyre, shall be dumb, 1135
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