and he angered the Muses who love the flute.
ChorusAnd by the waters of the Dark
Rocks, the waters of the twofold sea, are the shores of Bosporus and the Thracian city
Salmydessus, where Ares,
neighbor of that city, saw the accursed, blinding wound inflicted on the
two sons of Phineus by his savage wife. It was a wound that brought
darkness to the hollows, making them crave vengeance for the eyes she crushed with her bloody hands
and with her shuttle for a dagger. ChorusWasting away in their misery, they
bewailed their miserable suffering and their birth from their mother stripped of her
marriage. But she traced her descent from the ancient line of the
Erechtheids, and in far-distant caves she was raised amidst her
father’s gusts. She was the child of Boreas, running swift as
horses over the steep hills, a daughter of gods. Yet she, too, was
assailed by the long-lived Fates, my child.