A garb for work, for night; a thieving guise.LEADER.’Tis good to learn the wisdoms of the wise.What will thy wrapping be?DOLON.A grey wolf’s hideShall wrap my body close on either side;My head shall be the mask of gleaming teeth,My arms fit in the forepaws, like a sheath,My thighs in the hinder parts. No Greek shall tell’Tis not a wolf that walks, half visible,On four feet by the trenches and aroundThe ship-screen. When it comes to empty groundIt stands on two.—That is the plan, my friend!LEADER.Now Maian Hermes guide thee to thy endAnd home safe! Well he loves all counterfeit . . .Good work is there; may good luck go with it!DOLON(to himself, gazing out toward the Greek camp).There, and then back! . . . And on this belt shall bleedOdysseus’ head—or why not Diomede?—To prove my truth. Ere dawn can touch the landI shall be here, and blood upon my hand.numeration out of sync: 223 omitted Exit DOLON.

CHORUS.P. 15, 11. 225-263, Chorus.]—Apollo is appealed to as a God of Thymbra in the Troad, of Delos the Ionian island, and of Lycia in the South of Asia Minor; the god of Asiatics and barbaroi, the enemy of the Achaeans. This is also to a great extent the conception of Apollo in the Iliad, where he fights for Troy and is Hector’s special patron. The sudden ferocity towards Helen in the last strophe is quite in the manner of Euripides; cf. Trojan Women, 1107 ff. (p. 65), 766 ff. (p. 49), and often; also Iph. Taur. 438 ff. (p. 21), where her name comes somewhat as a surprise. The stage directions here are of course conjectural: it does not seem likely that the playwright, having made Dolon describe his wolf’s disguise in detail, would waste the opportunity of making him crawl off in it. Cf. on 1. 594, p. 63, and at the end of the play.Thymbraean, Delian, Birth divine,