HERACLES
Vengeance, mad, implacable, exacts
the penalty! Disaster lays him low! 890
Amphitryon
O my house!
Chorus
Now the dance begins! Not here,
the drums! no lovely thyrsos here!
Amphitryon
O my home!
Chorus
For blood, she drives, for bloodl
No wine of Dionysus here! 895
Amphitryon
Fly, children, save yourselves!
Chorus
Horrid,
horrid piping of the flute!
His sons, he hunts them down!
Madness through the house,
madness dancing death!
Amphitryon
0 grief! aoo
Chorus
1 grieve for those two,
for the old man, for the mother
who bore, who nursed her sons in vain!
Look, look!
Whirlwind shakes the house, the roof falls! 90 ;
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