Stasimon 4
[Choral]
Who was the man that passed?
CHORUS.
Who, that, so madly bold,
Laughed, and I loosed my hold?
Where shall I find him now?
695
What shall I deem of him,
To steal thro’ the guards a-row,
Quaking not, eye nor limb,
On thro’ the starlight dim?
Born by the Locrian sea,
700
Or harvester of some starved island’s corn?
What man hath seen his face?
What was his name or race,
What the high God P. 40, 1. 703, What the High God.]—It would be unparalleled in classical Greek to describe a man by his religion; but this phrase seems only to mean: What is his tribal God? i.e. what is his tribe? Thus it could be said of Isagoras in Herodotus (v. 66) that his kinsmen sacrificed to Carian Zeus, suggesting, presumably, that he had Carian blood. by whom his sires have sworn?
DIVERS GUARDS
This night must be Odysseus’ work, or whose?—
Odysseus? Aye, to judge by ancient use.—
705
Odysseus surely!—That is thy belief?—
What else? It seems he hath no fear
Of such as we!—Whom praise ye there?
