What is this new grief for our princes that you have come to report?MessengerThey are dead, and the living are guilty of the deaths.ChorusWho is the murderer? Who the murdered? Tell us.MessengerHaemon is dead—his blood was shed by no strange hand.ChorusWas it his father’s, or his own ?MessengerHe did it by his own, enraged with his father for the murder.ChorusAh, prophet, how true, then, you have proved your word!