Stasimon 5
[Choral 1]
These events that you see would not have happened as they have without the will of the gods.
950
Chorus
Yes, they have brought upon us a burden too heavy to bear.
Tecmessa
Yet what suffering the divine daughter of Zeus, fierce Pallas, engenders for Odysseus’
sake!
Chorus
No doubt the much-enduring hero exults in his dark soul and mocks in loud laughter at these frenzied sorrows—what shame!—
955
and with him, when they hear the news, will laugh the royal brothers, the Atreidae.
960
