I am a thing of naught; death is come upon me. My voice is choked, my limbs droop beneath me.MessengerHearken; if thou art eager alsoReading εἰ καὶ, for which Hermann has εἴπερ. Dindorf εἴ τι. to avenge thy friends, lift up thyself and hear what happened.PeleusAh, destiny! how tightly hast thou caught me in thy toils, a poor old man at life’s extremest verge! But tell me how he was taken from me, my one son’s only child; unwelcome as such news is, I fain would hear it.MessengerAs soon as we reached the famous soil of Phoebus, for three whole days were we feasting our eyes with the sight. And this, it seems, caused suspicion; for the folk, who dwell near the god’s shrine, began to collect in groups,