Roused the next station of the courier flame.
And that far-travelled light the sentries there
Refused not, burning more than all yet named:
And then the light swooped o'er Gorgopis' lake,
And passing on to Aegiplanctos' mount,
Bade the bright fire's due order tarry not;
And they, enkindling boundless store, send on
A mighty beard of flame, and then it passed
The headland e'en that looks on Saron's gulf
Still blazing. On it swept, until it came
To Arachnaean heights, the watch-tower near;
Then here on the Atreidae's roof it swoops,
This light, of Ida's fire no doubtful heir.
Such is the order of my torch-race games;
One from another taking up the course,
But here the winner is both first and last;
And this sure proof and token now I tell thee,
Seeing that my lord hath sent it me from Troia. {307}

While the _Chorus_ are still overcome with amazement, _Clytaemnestra_
triumphs over the condition of Troy that morning: like a vessel
containing oil and vinegar, the conquered, bewailing their first day of
captivity over the corpses of husbands and sons, the victors enjoying
their first rest free from the chill dews of night and the sentry's
call--and all will be well, _if_ they remember the rights of the Gods in
their sack of the city: ah! may they not in their exultation commit some
sacrilegious deed of plunder, forgetting that they have only reached the
goal, and have the return to make! If they should, the curse of those
who have perished might still awake against them [_Cl._ thus darkly
harping upon her secret hope that vengeance may still overtake them for
the sacrifice of her daughter.] {345}

_Exit Clytaemnestra, with Attendants._

After a few words of triumph (_in marching rhythm_), that Zeus, protector
of host and guest, has visited the proud Trojans, and brought them into a
net of bondage that neither young nor full-grown can overleap, the Chorus
proceed to a more formal expression of their feelings in {357}

CHORAL INTERLUDE I

_breaking, as regularly in the Choral Odes, into highly Lyrical rhythms
accompanied with Music and Gesture-dance, the evolutions of which lead
them alternately to Right and Left of Orchestra and back to Altar._

_Strophe I: evolutions from Altar to