Doth any of you hear a groan, or sound of hands that smite together, or the voice of lamentation, telling all is over and done? Yet is there no servant stationed about the gate, no, not one. O come, thou saving god, to smooth the swelling waves of woe!μετακύμιος. Liddell and Scott between two waves of misery, i.e. causing a short lull.

Second SemichorusSurely, were she dead, they would not be so still.First SemichorusMaybe her corpse is not yet from the house borne forth.Second SemichorusWhence that inference? I am not so sanguine. What gives thee confidence?